December 22, 2006
Deutsche Postbank AG today became one of the first banks in Germany to receive a notice of approval from the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) for its implementation approach for the Basel II regulations.
November 22, 2006
From January 1, 2007 Postbank will take over the processing of payment transactions for HypoVereinsbank (HVB). Today, the two institutes determined the final details.
November 21, 2006
80 percent of banking customers who use online banking do not read the security information provided by their bank. So far, banks have failed to reach the remaining 20 percent of customers with their advice and warnings (source: e-FMDS 2006). In order to remedy this situation, Postbank has added an entertaining learning tour to its information on online security.
November 10, 2006
Today marks the ten-year anniversary of the launch of Postbank’s Internet banking service. The Bonn-based bank went live at the address known throughout the whole of Germany, www.postbank.de, on November 11, 1996. Today, Postbank’s website is the most popular online banking site.
November 09, 2006
What marks out a high-quality online newsletter? This question has now been systematically evaluated by media experts from Hanover’s Technical College, who have developed the first scientifically-based test for online newsletters.
November 07, 2006
Deutsche Postbank AG grew further in the first nine months. Compared with the first three quarters of 2005, its pre-tax profit climbed 18.6 percent to EUR 651 million (the comparable data for the first three quarters of 2005 are pro forma data in which BHW and the branches are included arithmetically).
October 23, 2006
Deutsche Postbank AG is seeking to further expand its business in providing finance for commercial real estate, and to boost its growth on international markets in particular.
October 23, 2006
On October 23, Postbank’s Expo-Real stand in Hall C2 (Stand C2.410) will be the place to be. Franz Beckenbauer, the man who brought the FIFA 2006 TM Soccer World Cup to Germany, is visiting Postbank’s real estate team.
October 4, 2006
As of October 1, 2006, Postbank has concluded its official integration program for Postbank, BHW and branches ahead of schedule. The Bonn-based bank had set an original target date for the end of 2006, but was able to lay the crucial foundations for Group's future before this date.
August 7, 2006
Deutsche Postbank AG is aiming to achieve further growth in the area of transaction banking. This was underlined by Dr. Mario Daberkow, Postbank’s General Manager responsible for Services, talking to journalists in Frankfurt/Main.
July 28, 2006
Deutsche Postbank AG remains on growth track. It increased its pre-tax profit before taxes by 20.8% to €429 million (the comparative figures for the first half-year of 2005 are pro-forma data including BHW and Branches).
July 20, 2006
BHW Holding AG, Hamelin and Komercni banka, a.s. (KB) based in Prague have today signed an agreement on the sale of BHW's shares in the Czech savings bank, Modra pyramida stavebni sporitelna a.s. (MPSS).
July 17, 2006
Deutsche Postbank AG today launched an additional sales channel with the newly founded Postbank Finanzberatung AG. With around 5,000 mobile advisors, the new venture has one of the largest finance sales networks in Germany.
June 21, 2006
Original or fake? These days, this question has become just as vital for online banking users as for art collectors, with Internet frauds able to create remarkably genuine-looking bank websites and e-mails in an attempt to persuade bank customers to part with their account details.
June 1, 2006
Postbank and HypoVereinsbank signed a preliminary agreement to cooperate on payment transactions today. The planned long-term cooperation, the details of which will be worked out over the next few months, will allow the two banks to exploit synergies in the German payment transactions market.
May 22, 2006
As a national sponsor of the FIFA World Cup 2006™, Postbank is now offering a stock exchange game with a kick. Football fans and investors can trade with shares in the 32 participating teams at the Internet address www.postbank.de/wmboerse.
May 15, 2006
Deutsche Postbank AG started well into the year 2006. In the first quarter, the Postbank Group, which now also includes BHW and the 850 branches acquired, generated profit before tax of €208 million.
May 11,.2006
Deutsche Postbank AG is making good progress with the integration of its new business units BHW and Branches. This was announced by the Chairman of the Board of Management, Prof. Wulf von Schimmelmann, at the second Annual General Meeting of Postbank on May 11 in Cologne.
April 21, 2006
Deutsche Postbank AG has expanded its leasing range for corporate customers. In co-operation with Key Equipment Finance, one of the largest providers of investment equipment leasing in the USA, it now offers leasing of information and telecommunications technology.
April 18, 2006
Postbank's mobile TAN procedure has now been awarded the TÜV stamp for providing exemplary online banking security. The TÜV Rheinland Group thus confirms that the mobile transaction number (mTAN) provides "effective protection for technical systems that be accessed externally from unauthorized use".
March 29, 2006
80% of online bankers doubt whether they would recognize a forged e-mail. This is the alarming result of a recent survey by the market researcher TNS Infratest. Postbank wants to make it simple for their customers to identify forged mails and is consequently focusing on implementing an e-mail signature.
March 29, 2006
The BHW Group intends to use its core competences of home finance, Bauspar savings and provisioning to create the basis for a return to its previous earnings power.
March 13, 2006
Deutsche Postbank AG again posted record earnings in the 2005 fiscal year with pre-tax earnings of EUR 719 million. With strong growth compared to the previous year and steady costs, it improved earnings by 11%.
March 13, 2006
The balance sheet-related earnings of Postbank (net interest income, net trading income and net investment result) were up 3.4% in the 2005 fiscal year to EUR 2.13 billion (previous year: 2.06 billion EUR).
March 10, 2006
The Supervisory Board of Deutsche Postbank AG appointed Henning R. Engmann to the bank's Management Board on March 10. He takes over responsibility for finance, previously managed by the Chairman of the Management Board, Wulf von Schimmelmann.
February 7, 2006
In the course of integration into the Postbank Group, there will be changes in the composition of the Management Board of BHW Bausparkasse AG. At its meeting this afternoon, the Supervisory Board of BHW Bausparkasse appointed Dr. Michael Meyer a new member of the company's Management Board. He was previously Head of Marketing (Product Management) at Postbank.
February 7, 2006
In the course of integration into the Postbank Group, there will be changes in the composition of the Management Board of BHW Bausparkasse AG. At its meeting this afternoon, the Supervisory Board of BHW Bausparkasse appointed Dr. Michael Meyer a new member of the company's Management Board. He was previously Head of Marketing (Product Management) at Postbank.
January 26, 2006
On Wednesday, Deutsche Postbank AG submitted a mandatory offer to the shareholders of BHW Holding AG for their shares. The offer is for €15.04 per BHW share and runs from January 26 to February 23,2006.
January 2, 2006
The BHW Group is opening a new chapter in its almost 78-year long history. As of today, the Hamelin-based home finance and provisioning specialist will be part of Deutsche Postbank AG.
