Bank in the diocese of Essen
| BIB - BANK IN THE BISTUM ESSEN | |
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| Country |
 Germany
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| Seat | eat |
| legal form | registered cooperative |
| Bank code | 360 602 95 |
| BIC | GENO DED1 BBE |
| founding | 1966 |
| Association | Genossenschaftsverband - Association of Regions eV |
| Website | www.bibessen.de |
| Business data 2017 | |
| Total assets | 4,950 million euros |
| insoles | 3,293 million euros |
| Customer credit | 3,094 million euros |
| Employee | 125 |
| Members | 4,256 |
| management | |
| Board | Peter Güllmann (Speaker) Johannes Mintrop Manfred Sonnenschein |
| Supervisory board | Ass. Jur. Ludger Krösmann (Chairman) |
| List of cooperative banks in Germany | |
The bank in the Diocese of Essen eG ( spelling : BANK IM BISTUM ESSEN eG , also abbreviated to BIB ) is a cooperative bank founded in 1966 with headquarters in Essen , which specializes in a clearly defined group of customers. This includes the church and its institutions. Its members include business customers such as hospitals, foundations, church housing companies, institutions for the elderly and the disabled or pension funds - and a large number of private customers: the employees of the above-mentioned institutions. Customers can now also become people who do not work for the church, as well as non-believers and other believers. Due to the ethically-sustainable orientation of the bank, numerous customers from the field of charitable foundations have also been added in recent years. According to their own statements, exclusively profit-oriented companies are not part of the bank's customer area.
In addition to the Bank for Church and Caritas eG , Paderborn , the DKM loan fund Münster and the Pax-Bank in Cologne , the bank in the diocese of Essen eG is one of the four Catholic church banks in North Rhine-Westphalia . In terms of its total assets in 2017, the bank in the Diocese of Essen eG ranks 25th among the largest Volksbanks and Raiffeisenbanks in Germany.
Their offer includes the entire range of services of a universal bank . Bank-related products such as building society savings, insurance and more are also sold.
Business alignment
The actions of the bank in the Diocese of Essen are based on the idea of sustainable development. The bank tries to describe this business policy orientation with the term FairBanking. This should be understood as the connection between economic, social and ecological responsibility. The Christian principle of preserving creation is anchored in the bank's strategy.
Range of services
The services of the bank in the diocese of Essen eG include:
- the financing of social real estate such as hospitals and nursing homes,
- housing finance,
- the provision of electronic banking services,
- asset management from savings accounts to investments in special funds, taking ethical and sustainable aspects into account
Sustainability and Social Responsibility
According to its own statement, sustainability is part of the business policy of the bank in the Diocese of Essen eG. In-house, the environmental impact of the bank's business activities is measured in a life cycle assessment . The aim of the life cycle assessment is to permanently improve the key figures for "electricity", "heating energy", "paper", "water" and "waste" in order to make an appropriate contribution to environmental protection. In addition, all of the bank's own investments are to be invested according to ethical and social criteria. The bank's product range is constantly being expanded to include sustainable products. This includes the range of ethically and sustainably managed investment funds as well as the initiation and management of microfinance funds .
The foundation fund Church and Caritas of the bank in the Diocese of Essen eG supports regional, national and international projects and is involved in a variety of ways.
Microfinance
The bank in the Diocese of Essen has been granting loans to microfinance institutions worldwide since 2006. In addition, the bank has set up two microfinance funds for institutional investors in which it invests itself and which the bank manages itself. As the first credit institute in Germany, the bank in the Diocese of Essen eG also offers private customers the opportunity to invest in microfinance through a savings account.
Current
On August 31, 2018, Heinz-Peter Heidrich, the bank's spokesman for the board of the Diocese of Essen, retired after 24 years; his successor was Dr. Peter Güllmann.
The bank in the Diocese of Essen has been actively supporting the energy transition for years, in December 2018 the bank announced a zero percent loan for people who would like to buy an electric car for up to 50,000 euros in order to protect the environment and the climate.
Web links
- Bank in the diocese of Essen in the company database of BaFin
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Master data of the credit institute at the Deutsche Bundesbank
- ↑ 2017 annual financial statements in the Federal Gazette at http://www.bundesanzeiger.de/
- ↑ Annual Report 2012 - ›What drives us: taking responsibility‹. Retrieved February 7, 2019 .
- ↑ BVR ranking list at the end of 2017 ( memento of the original from March 16, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Dr. Peter Güllmann is leaving NRW.Bank - VC Magazin. Retrieved February 8, 2019 .
- ↑ http://www.derwesten.de/staedte/essen/eine-bank-die-keinen-sitzen- Lassen-will- id7428850.html
- ↑ http://www.bibessen.info/jahresbericht/2012/_dt/nachhaltigkeit/
- ↑ http://www.oekotest.de/cgi/index.cgi?artnr=100841&bernr=01&seite=02
- ↑ From: rwm: Bank in the diocese: Güllmann succeeds Heidrich. In: New Ruhr word. April 6, 2018, accessed April 25, 2019 (German).
- ↑ Bank in the Diocese of Essen provides 1 million euros for electromobility. Retrieved April 25, 2019 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 27 '15.4 " N , 7 ° 0' 55.7" E