The bond was placed with a seven-year maturity as a senior non-preferred bond and generated a great deal of interest among investors.

In 2021, the world will gradually free itself from the shackles of the corona pandemic. For the coming year, DZ BANK Research anticipates a strong recovery of the global economy and forecasts growth of 5 percent.

Dr. Jan Holthusen will succeed Stefan Bielmeier as Head of the Research and Economics Division of DZ BANK on January 1, 2021.

In the first half of 2020, the DZ BANK Group generated a profit before taxes of €557 million and has thus far coped well with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

With its pledge to the Principles for Responsible Banking (PRB), DZ BANK has made a commitment to greater sustainability and transparency.

In the first half of 2019, the DZ BANK Group generated a profit before taxes of €1.46 billion (H1 2018: €1.03 billion). This significant improvement on the prior-year period was attributable to the strong operating performance across all entities coupled with an inconspicuous risk situation.

The information platform InGen enables the systematic evaluation of private placements for the first time and makes it easier for institutional investors to select suitable investment products.

A cross-institutional team of DekaBank, dwpbank, DZ BANK and Helaba has succeeded for the first time in processing the issue of promissory note loans by exclusively digital means.

The DZ BANK Group took part in the EU-wide stress test conducted by the European Banking Authority (EBA). DZ BANK obtained a satisfactory result.

In H1 2018 the DZ BANK Group reported a profit before taxes of EUR 1.03 billion. A robust operating performance and an inconspicuous risk situation throughout the entire DZ BANK Group played a key role here.

DZ BANK and PT Bank Central Asia, Indonesia’s largest private commercial bank, have signed a cooperation agreement. The main objective of the agreement is to offer mutual support to respective corporate clients.

In 2017, the DZ BANK Group again delivered a good operating performance and generated a profit before taxes of € 1.81 billion (2016: € 2.2 billion).

DZ BANK Group brought H1 2017 to a successful conclusion thanks to good customer business. The positive operating performance was achieved in a demanding market environment and parallel to the integration work following the merger of DZ BANK and WGZ BANK, which has made rapid progress.

The Supervisory Board of DZ BANK AG dealt intensively with the further development towards a holding model agreed within the framework of the merger and decided on executive board staffing issues.

The two cooperative real estate banks DG HYP and WL BANK are pushing ahead with their planned merger. The banks started merger talks in March 2017 and since then have worked out the key features of the merged real-estate bank.

China Development Bank and DZ BANK sign strategic cooperation agreement. The aim is to intensify economic relations between both countries.

The DZ BANK Group reported a profit before taxes of € 2.2 billion in the financial year 2016. This result was driven mainly by a good development in the customer business. It also reflects the successful merger with WGZ BANK.

Lars Hille has informed the Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Helmut Gottschalk, of his wish to surrender his position on the DZ BANK AG Board of Managing Directors upon expiry of his contract on 14 October 2017 in order to pursue new professional challenges.

In H1 2016 the DZ BANK Group achieved a profit before taxes of EUR 1.57 billion (H1 2015: EUR 1.28 billion). Essentially, this result was based on what was predominantly a good operating performance in the group companies.

At today’s AGM in Frankfurt DZ BANK’s shareholders approved the merger agreement between DZ BANK and WGZ BANK with 99.99 per cent of the capital they represent.

The acquisition of a 25 percent share interest in the Hamburg start-up founded in 2015 is the first strategic investment in a FinTech by DZ BANK in the corporate customer business.

At its meeting today, the Supervisory Board of DZ BANK AG unanimously approved the merger agreement for the merger of DZ BANK and WGZ BANK.

Today the Boards of Managing Directors of DZ BANK and WGZ BANK jointly signed the merger documents required for the merger to form a joint cooperative central institution – the merger agreement and the merger report.

DZ BANK AG and WGZ BANK AG are merging to become a cooperative central institution.

DZ BANK AG's seventh Sustainability Report, which was released today, shows the progress that the bank made in this area last year, particularly in terms of the sustainability of its core business and the environmental improvements to its internal processes.

The DZ BANK Group brought the first half of financial 2015 to a successful conclusion with a profit before taxes of EUR 1.28 billion. Adjusted for the bank levy of EUR 143 million, it has thus already almost achieved its expected full-year result of EUR 1.5 billion.

In future, DZ BANK AG will manage its lending business more strongly on the basis of sustainability criteria and measurable targets.