Raiffeisenbank or Raiffeisen Bank refers to
cooperative bank
Cooperative banking is retail and commercial banking organized on a cooperative basis. Cooperative banking institutions take deposits and lend money in most parts of the world.
Cooperative banking, as discussed here, includes retail banking carr ...
s in Europe that are rooted in the early
credit union
A credit union is a member-owned nonprofit organization, nonprofit cooperative financial institution. They may offer financial services equivalent to those of commercial banks, such as share accounts (savings accounts), share draft accounts (che ...
s of
Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen
Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen (30 March 1818 – 11 March 1888) was a German mayor and cooperative pioneer. Several credit union systems and cooperative banks have been named after Raiffeisen, who pioneered rural credit unions.
Life
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Raiffeisen Banking Group, Austrian group of cooperative banks
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Raiffeisen Bank International
Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI) is a key entity of the decentralized Raiffeisen Banking Group in Austria, acting both as the latter's domestic central financial entity and as the holding company for all the group's operations outside of Aus ...
(RBI), the group's central institution
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Raiffeisen Zentralbank
Raiffeisen Zentralbank Österreich A.G. (RZB) was a significant bank in Austria and the central institution of the Raiffeisen Banking Group (RBG) until its merger into its subsidiary Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI) in 2017.
It had subsidi ...
, the group's former central institution until merger into RBI in 2017
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Raiffeisen (Albania)
The Raiffeisen Bank is one of the largest banks in Albania. In 2021, it had a market share of 15.35%, making it the third largest bank in Albania.
Background
It was originally known as Banka e Kursimeve (Savings Bank of Albania), but following i ...
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Raiffeisen Bank (Romania)
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Raiffeisenbank (Russia)
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Raiffeisen Bank (Serbia)
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Raiffeisen Bank (Ukraine)
The Public JSC Raiffeisen Bank (, formerly Raiffeisen Bank Aval) is a commercial bank in Ukraine and is a subsidiary of Austrian Raiffeisen Bank International. In early 2024, it was confirmed by the National Bank of Ukraine as one of the countr ...
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Raiffeisenlandesbank Niederösterreich-Wien
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Raiffeisenlandesbank Oberösterreich
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Raiffeisen-Landesbank Tirol
Raiffeisen-Landesbank Tirol A.G. () is an Austrian grouping of cooperative banks based in Innsbruck, Tyrol. The bank is the central institute of Raiffeisenbank in Tyrol. The bank is a member of Raiffeisen Bankengruppe (as one of the eight Raiffei ...
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German Cooperative Financial Group
The German Cooperative Financial Group (, sometimes referred to in English as "Volksbanken Raiffeisenbanken Cooperative Financial Network") is a major cooperative banking network in Germany that includes local banks named Volksbanken ("people's ...
, which includes Volksbanken and Raiffeisenbanken
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, South Tyrol, Italy group of cooperative banks
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Raiffeisen (Switzerland)
Raiffeisen Switzerland is a cooperative of cooperatives – the union of all independent Switzerland, Swiss Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen, Raiffeisen banks. It bears responsibility for the business policy and strategy within the Raiffeisen Group. ...
, Swiss group of cooperative banks
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Banque Raiffeisen, Luxembourgish group of cooperative banks
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Rabobank
Rabobank (; full name: ''Coöperatieve Rabobank U.A.'') is a Dutch multinational banking and financial services company headquartered in Utrecht, Netherlands. The group comprises 89 local Dutch Rabobanks (2019), a central organisation (Raboban ...
(originally "Raiffeisen-Boerenleenbank"), Dutch group of cooperative banks
* Raiffeisen Privatbank Liechtenstein AG
See also
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KBC Bank
KBC Group N.V. is a Belgian universal multi-channel bank-insurer, focusing on private clients and small and medium-sized enterprises in Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia. It was created in 1998 through the merger of Kredi ...
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Crédit Mutuel
Crédit Mutuel () is a French cooperative banking group, one of the country's top five banks with over 30 million customers. It traces its origins back to the German cooperative movement inspired by Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen in Alsace–Lorr ...
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Raiffeisen (disambiguation)
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Volksbank
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