December 17, 2003
Postbank has more customers than any other bank in Germany at 11.5 million. It has gained well over 400,000 customers per year since 2001, thus expanding its customer base of ten million customers by 1.5 million.
November 27, 2003
Deutsche Postbank AG and KfW are on the verge of concluding a transaction in the framework of KfW’s PROVIDE securitisation platform. This is the first time for Deutsche Postbank AG to securitise balance sheet assets.
November 24, 2003
Deutsche Postbank AG has now expanded its range of trade finance services. In cooperation with Citigroup, it is now offering its corporate customers collection against documents and documentary credit.
October 23, 2003
Postbank has put its new software for current accounts into operation. The program, which was developed jointly with SAP, now processes payments and account management for the just under five million internal and external bank accounts.
October 01, 2003
Deutsche Bank and Dresdner Bank will have their payments processed by Postbank. Preliminary agreements for this have now been signed by the three companies.
September 02, 2003
Almost unnoticed, online banking in Germany will celebrate its twentieth birthday in the next few days. It was in 1983 that the then Federal Minister for Post, Christian Schwarz-Schilling, pressed the start button for what was, at the time, a revolutionary technology at the Internationale Funkausstellung (IFA – a consumer electronics trade fair) in Berlin.
August 18, 2003
With immediate effect, Postbank is a premium partner of the German Football Association German Football Association (DFB) for the area of financial services. The contract has initially been concluded to 2008 and covers not only the sponsoring commitment, but also the DFB qualification campaign. Postbank is also to become the main DFB bank.
July 04, 2003
From now on, T-Online will be providing services for private and corporate clients in a kind of virtual retail outlet of Postbank. The integration of the Postbank’s services marks the start of a cooperation between the two partners, which is to be extended in the future through innovative offers and product packages.
June 04, 2003
At its meeting on Wednesday, the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Postbank AG settled the issue of who will be the next head of the Personnel Board Department. The current Labour Director, Volker Mai, has resigned his position of his own volition with effect from 30 June 2003 and is leaving the company by amicable agreement.
May 27, 2003
Postbank has reached the record number of four million current accounts in the private customer sector. The bank registered net growth of over 200,000 private current accounts last year and now has a market share of more than five percent.
May 26, 2003
Postbank will be a national sponsor for the finance sector at the FIFA football World Cup 2006 Germany, the company announced on Monday in Frankfurt am Main. This almost rounds out the team of national sponsors.
March 20, 2003
Deutsche Postbank AG is the first bank in Europe to launch TradeCard, a platform allowing document-based transaction processing from purchase order to payment over the internet.
January 21, 2003
Postbank has now linked payment in the internet shop with accounts, thereby solving a problem particularly beleaguering larger companies that sell their products over the internet.