Significats de cooperative banks en anglès

Volksbank is 58 percent owned by local and regional cooperative banks.

Germany is keen to retain primary oversight for its regional savings and cooperative banks.

ICBPI earns fees on payment, clearing and credit card services provided to Italian cooperative banks.

All are cooperative banks affected by the reform and are listed on the Milan bourse.

Regional Austrian cooperative banks own 58 percent of Volksbanken.

Another 20 percent is held by cooperative banks.

Regional cooperative banks own 58 percent of Volksbanken.

Berlin has been reluctant to see its politically sensitive savings and cooperative banks come under outside supervision.

However, tighter rules that came into force last year have made share buy-backs by unlisted cooperative banks harder.

The bonded loan was placed with more than 200 investors, primarily private banks, German landesbanks, cooperative banks and savings banks.

They account for a quarter to half of the capital reserves of the landesbanken, savings banks, cooperative banks and private banks.

Mergers should strengthen Italian cooperative banks, the European Commission said in a document on Thursday, boosting their ability to deal with problematic loans.

Concardis and its owners - German savings banks, cooperative banks and privately-held banks - declined to comment or were not immediately available for comment.

Representatives of Italian cooperative banks voiced concerns during parliamentary testimony last week that the reform would make them vulnerable to foreign takeovers and speculative investors.

DZ Bank is the central bank for Germany's roughly 1,100 cooperative banks and also links them to international capital markets.

By selling Postbank, Deutsche aims to raise capital and retreat from the low-profit battlefield that is German retail banking, dominated by savings and cooperative banks.