There are several banks that operate under the name "Volksbank" (Afrikaans, Dutch and German for "people's bank").
There are also 1,099 independent local Volksbanken in Germany. They are completely separate from the Austrian Association of Volksbanks. Volksbanken are also known as VB (Volk is the German word for people) or as VR (Volksbanken Raiffeisenbanken).
Germany - Volksbanken Raiffeisenbanken
The "Bundesverband der Deutschen Volksbanken und Raiffeisenbanken" (Federal Association of Volksbanken and Raiffeisenbanken) is a consortium of 1,099[1] independent credit unions, which represents the banks as Germany's largest banking group in several marketing affairs and as service partner Genossenschaftliche Finanzgruppe Volksbanken Raiffeisenbanken - Cooperative Financial Group.
The German Cooperative Financial Group is the only banking group which survived the financial crisis of 2007-08 without any state intervention. Former subsidiaries of Volksbank, have been sold to Sberbank of Russia.
13 January 2013 robbery at Berliner Volksbank
On 13 January 2013 robbers stole goods from 100 private safe deposit boxes located in Steglitz, Berlin. In the official statement the police said that bank security officer noticed smoke coming from the deposit room on Monday morning (January 14). Next they found broken deposit boxes and a 30 m tunnel, the digging of which probably took a couple of weeks or even months. The tunnel (external pictures) was reportedly so well constructed that it had ceiling supports and was about 3 feet wide.[2] It connected the bank deposit and a nearby underground parking lot. Probably nobody noticed anything, because the parking lot was shielded by roulettes, and people thought that this part was under repair. There are some similarities between this robbery and the Baker Street robbery in London.[3]
Austria - Association of Volksbanks
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| Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Finance and Insurance |
| Founded | 1850 |
| Headquarters | Vienna, Austria |
| Products | Financial services |
Number of employees | 4,400 (2015) |
| Website | www |
In Austria there are 35 local Volksbanks (by end of 2015), each of them organized as a cooperative or a corporation. By 2017 they will merge to 8 regional banks and 2 specialized banks. They build an integrated system of banks (Association of Volksbanks) connected through a contract of collaboration. The central institution is VOLKSBANK WIEN AG, the biggest regional bank of the association.[4] The central service functions were transferred from Österreichische Volksbanken AG (ÖVAG) to VOLKSBANK WIEN AG in July 2015. ÖVAG itself surrendered its banking license.[5] The "remainder of ÖVAG" continues to operate as a wind-down entity under the name of immigon portfolioabbau ag. Immigon is responsible for ensuring the orderly, active and value-preserving wind-down of its assets.
The Netherlands - De Volksbank
De Volksbank is a Dutch retail bank offering financial products to both companies and individuals.
South Africa - Volkskas
Volkskas Beperk (English: Peoples' Bank) was a South African bank founded in 1934 as a cooperative loan bank, becoming a commercial bank in 1941.[6] In 1991, by which time it had become South Africa's largest Afrikaner bank, Volkskas merged with United Building Society, Allied Building Society and Trust Bank to form Amalgamated Banks of South Africa (now, Absa Group Limited).[7]
References
- ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-10-21. Retrieved 2013-12-26.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ↑ "Bank Robbery Tunnel Photos Released". ABC News.
- ↑ Polska, Grupa Wirtualna (23 January 2013). "Spektakularny napad na bank".
- ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-08-17. Retrieved 2016-07-11.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ↑ "VBAG successfully split - immigon portfolioabbau ag".
- ↑ Patterson, Sheila (2004). The Last Trek: A Study of the Boer People and the Afrikaner Nation. Routledge. p. 165. ISBN 978-0-415-32999-6.
- ↑ Meldrum, Andrew (10 May 2005). "From apartheid to mass appeal". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 14 March 2010.
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