WestLB AG is a European commercial bank with firm roots in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany´s largest federal state. With total assets of € 286.5 billion as at December 31, 2007, it is one of Germany´s leading financial services providers. It is the central institution for the savings banks in North Rhine-Westphalia and Brandenburg, and as an internationally operating commercial bank it acts as their link to the global financial markets. Working in close partnership with the savings banks, WestLB offers the full range of products and services of a universal bank, focusing on lending, structured finance, capital market and private equity products, asset management, transaction services and real estate finance. WestLB employs 6,147 staff (as of December 31, 2007).
As a strong partner in the Savings Banks Financial Group and competence centre, WestLB provides the regionally operating savings banks with attractive products and services as well as efficient execution. It is also financial partner to major corporations and larger medium-sized companies, institutional clients and public-sector clients. Thanks to its presence in the most important financial centres around the world, WestLB provides acknowledged capital market expertise and access to the international capital markets for its clients and the savings banks.
The regional focus of its activities is on Europe and on North Rhine-Westphalia in particular. In a close business partnership based on shared cooperation, individual agreements govern the joint market approach of WestLB and the savings banks. Medium-sized companies, in particular, benefit from this.
Globalisation, constant technological progress and the merging of the lending and capital markets mean that companies are faced increasingly with new and individual challenges. WestLB offer you integrated concepts tailored to your long-term financing strategies.
WestLB go out of their way to achieve exceptional results which meet your individual needs and wishes.
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Transaction Services offers your institution a vast range of products which are geared to support your banking business at a state of the art level. They would like to invite you to benefit from thair expertise.
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