Bank for Church and Caritas
| Bank for Church and Caritas eG | |
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| Country |
 Germany
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| Seat | |
| legal form | registered cooperative |
| Bank code | 472 603 07 |
| BIC | GENO DEM1 BKC |
| Association | Rheinisch-Westfälischer Genossenschaftsverband |
| Website | www.bkc-paderborn.de |
| Business data 2018 | |
| Total assets | EUR 5,088 million |
| insoles | 4,570 million euros |
| Customer credit | EUR 1,348 million |
| Employee | 131 |
| Members | 1,368 |
| management | |
| Board | Richard Böger, chairman; Jürgen Reineke |
| Supervisory board | Georg Rüter, chairman |
| List of cooperative banks in Germany | |
The Bank for Church and Caritas eG , based in Paderborn , was founded in 1972 as a loan office in the Archdiocese of Paderborn eG . Since this was the last establishment of a Catholic church bank in Germany, the bank is the youngest cooperative church bank in Germany .
Its statutory mandate is to supply all institutions of the Catholic Church with financial services of all kinds. The focus here is on the administration of church assets, the granting of loans to finance charitable institutions and the processing of national and international payment transactions for their customers.
The bank, which has been operating under its current name since 1998, only has its branch in Paderborn and has not set up any further branches in order to reduce costs. Initially, her activities focused on the area of the Archdiocese of Paderborn . Since 2000, the bank has also been serving increasingly Catholic customers throughout Germany, mainly in the dioceses of Magdeburg , Fulda and Limburg .
history
The Bank for Church and Caritas is the youngest of the three church banks working in Westphalia. It was founded in the spring of 1972 as a loan office in the Archdiocese of Paderborn eG, the initiative for this came primarily from Archbishop Lorenz Cardinal Jaeger . The idea was a “joint effort by and for church congregations, church-charitable institutions and their employees” as it already existed in other dioceses. The first talks were held in 1971, and the banking license was granted on March 16, 1972 by the Federal Banking Supervisory Office . Under the first full-time director, Berthold Naarmann , the bank began operations on May 2, 1972.
In the first year of its existence, 800 customers were won. The potential customers were written to individually and informed about the new bank. From 1974, the distribution of funds to the municipalities also changed. Now the money was no longer distributed as required, but each parish and church institution received an allocation according to a certain key, which was measured according to a point system.
In 1977 the bank acquired the building of the West German Cooperative Central Bank; In the following year an urgently needed renovation of the building erected in the 1950s took place. Another major renovation took place in the early 1990s. At this time the banking business had grown so much that all floors of the house had to be used for the loan office. An additional expansion is imminent. In 2005, the neighboring building, Kamp 19, was acquired, which will enable the bank building to be enlarged, including parking for customers. Construction began in summer 2008 and was completed in June 2011.
In 1997, the year of its jubilee, the bank took on its "nickname" Bank for Church and Caritas as its official name. In recent years, business relationships have also been expanded across the district of the Paderborn diocese.
From the start, the bank's activities were not limited to traditional banking services. In the first few years, contacts were made with Poland, especially with the Köslin diocese . The bank also supported the establishment of a disaster fund by the church tax council. A sustainability advisory board convened by the Bank for Church and Caritas met for the first time in 2005 and will support the bank in further profiling its understanding of sustainability. Particular attention is paid to the preservation of historical cultural assets. The promotion of contemporary church art also enjoys a high priority.
sustainability
On August 27, 2013, the Bank for Church and Caritas received the ECOreporter seal “Sustainable Bank”. This award was presented to CEO Richard Böger at a press conference in Frankfurt by the Dortmund sustainability agency ECOreporter.de AG.
Web links
- Bank for Church and Caritas in the BaFin company database
- Website of the Bank for Church and Caritas eG
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Master data of the credit institute at the Deutsche Bundesbank
- ↑ Annual report 2018 / pages 3, 4, 5 and 25th
- ↑ Press release: ECOreporter.de awards seal for sustainable banks, investment advice and financial products - strict criteria from August 28, 2013 ( memento from January 20, 2015 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed on September 5, 2013
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