Dresdner Bank

After the legal merger of Commerzbank AG and Dresdner Bank AG on May 11th, 2009, Dresdner Bank AG will cease to exist as a separate legal entity. Dresdner Bank will remain as a brand for the time being. With respect to total assets and number of clients, it is one of the leading European banks.

The merger of Dresdner Bank and Commerzbank offers the opportunity for the new company not only to be a major competitor on the German market but also to grow to become a European player. The pooling of activities in the SME segment, the broad presence in Central and Eastern Europe, and also the good positioning in the real estate business are strengths of the new bank. Commerzbank and Dresdner Bank can call on outstanding competence – not only in the Private Clients segment but especially when it comes to advising small and medium-sized enterprises. The merger makes them number one in this field. With its focus on the SME segment, the new bank will strengthen Germany as a business location.

Our business model

Dresdner Bank’s focus is on serving the financial needs of private and business clients and large caps, as well as multinationals and institutional clients.

Personal Banking offers all customers quick, hassle-free services for everyday banking transactions at an attractive price. Clients who wish to play an active role in managing their finances and who are looking for a competent partner to assist them are well served by Dresdner Bank’s Private Banking. Our advisors support clients in achieving long-term asset growth: they prepare analyses, make recommendations and offer sophisticated solutions based on intelligent products.

Business Banking provides optimised advisory services and support for the private and business needs of business clients in the areas of asset management and financing. Our efforts begin when a new company is established. Together with our clients, our advisors review the business case, calculate the new company’s capital requirements and prepare a tailor-made financing concept.

The Private Wealth Management unit works together with our clients to analyse their financial position. We draw up an overview of their securities investments, real estate holdings, equity investments, other assets, insurance policies and liabilities. In addition, we look at their family and business situation, the returns they expect to generate, their liquidity requirements, and their risk appetite. We advise clients who wish to manage their family and business assets, real estate and foundations themselves. Alternatively, clients can grant us an asset management mandate.

Our Corporate Banking unit offers larger middle-market companies and large caps needs-driven support in the form of commercial banking products and capital markets-based financial solutions – including expert advice and excellent service.

Dresdner Kleinwort
At Dresdner Kleinwort, we focus on German and multinational groups, financial investors and institutions, as well as middle-market corporate clients requiring access to the capital markets. Capital Markets is responsible for our capital markets business in equities, bonds, foreign exchange, interest rates and loans. In addition to our trading capacity, we have a high-quality research offering covering these investment classes. Our Global Banking staff provides classic corporate advisory services and corporate finance using a uniform credit platform. We offer advisory services and finance for takeovers and divestments, in addition to structuring complex capital market transactions such as corporate bond and stock issues, IPOs and syndicated loans.