German Cooperative Financial Group
Banking group in Germany
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| January 2025 | The Financial Supervisory Authority banned the Raiffeisenbank im Hochtaunus eG from granting loans due to defaulted loans, low equity ratio, and structural risks identified through press investigation. |
| November 2024 | The Financial Supervisory Authority replaced the management of Volksbank Düsseldorf-Neuss with a special representative following a fraudulent transfer of €100 million and revelations about potential money laundering connections. |
| 2022 | The Raiffeisenbank im Hochtaunus eG in Bad Homburg opened an online banking service and began aggressively advertising for new customers. |
| April 2022 | DZ Bank, Deutsche Apotheker- und Ärztebank, and Münchener Hypothekenbank were designated as significant institutions under European Banking Supervision, becoming directly supervised by the European Central Bank (ECB). |
| March 31 2022 | The Cooperative IPS included a total of 781 member entities at the end of March. |
| 2020 | DZ Bank reported that 88.3 percent of its total operating income was generated from within Germany, highlighting the group's strong domestic focus. |
| 2016 | DZ Bank absorbed WGZ Bank of Düsseldorf, completing the Cooperative Group's transformation into a two-tier structure that had begun in the 1980s. |
| 2014 | The Cooperative Group's IPS again intervened to support member banks with €11 million. |
| 2013 | The Cooperative Group's IPS intervened to support member banks with €11 million. |
| January 13 2013 | A sophisticated bank robbery occurred in Steglitz, Berlin, where robbers stole goods from 100 private safe deposit boxes by digging a 30-meter tunnel connecting the bank deposit room to an underground parking lot. |
| 2011 | The Cooperative Group's Institutional Protection Scheme (IPS) provided support to member banks in two separate interventions, totaling €114 million. |
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