Berlin Institute for Bank Management

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The Berlin Institute for Bank Management (BIfBU) was an application-oriented research institute at the Berlin University of Technology and Economics .

Origin and history

In September 2004, the Berlin Institute for Bank Management was founded by professors from the HTW Berlin and senior staff from companies in the financial services sector in Berlin and Brandenburg. The institute no longer exists since 2018.

The affiliated institute was run in the legal form of a registered association.

Scientific profile

The purpose of the institute was primarily to promote and carry out application-oriented research and to transfer know-how to credit institutions in the Berlin / Brandenburg region. The institute saw its most important task in promoting a fruitful exchange between science and practice. This objective was achieved by, among others

  • issuing publications on bank governance
  • the creation of forums and networks for the mutual personal exchange of banking management topics
  • the organization of lectures, symposia and congresses
  • the formation and promotion of regional working groups and
  • the development of international cooperation with comparable institutions.

Various events and publications support the intensive encounter between the university sector and companies in the financial services sector, such as B.

  • the Berlin banking and real estate forum, where speakers from the fields of banking, companies, consulting and politics discuss (since 1997)
  • the Berliner Bankentag, which has been a regular industry meeting point in the German capital since 2005
  • the Berlin bank colloquium once a year with the award of the BIfBU sponsorship award for an outstanding thesis
  • the publication series "Financial Services Management", which is accompanied by an international editorial board
  • the working papers, which reflect the research results in banking management at HTW Berlin
  • the newsletter "BIfBU aktuell", which reports once a semester on current events around the Berlin Institute for Bank Management

Projects

In September 2007, BIfBU was awarded a three-year research grant from the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development for the project “Demand-oriented professionalization of the management of small businesses in individual stages of life”. The aim of the project was to overcome, in the area of ​​transferring management knowledge, on the one hand the separation between training and consulting and, on the other hand, the obvious deficit of differentiation in the usual training courses. The aim is to help small and very small businesses that were previously barely accessible to professional management skills, with the project aimed particularly at businesses in the craft sector.

The competence field of the HTW Berlin "banks and regional development" a. set the goal of developing an information system with geographical elements on the Berlin / Brandenburg banking market. The loan and deposit development, the development of the branches, the number of employees and, last but not least, the key figures for the financial statements of the Berlin and Brandenburg credit institutions should be recorded, processed and analyzed.

management

Wolfgang L. Brunner has headed the institute since September 2004. Before he was appointed to HTW Berlin, he was a senior manager in bank management for two decades.