Tagged: commerzbank

February 16, 2025 @ 9:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Commerzbank and Visa (NYSE: V) have agreed on a strategic partnership in the card business. The firms are reportedly expanding their existing cooperation in payments. In the foreseeable future, Commerzbank customers will preferentially “receive debit and credit cards” from the global tech company Visa. The… Read More

August 28, 2024 @ 11:57 am By JD Alois  |  

German Bank Commerzbank has opened a representative office in Lithuania. According to a blog post on Invest Lithuania,  the representative office in Vilnius will serve as the hub for the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Commerzbank is said to be focusing on trade… Read More

April 3, 2024 @ 10:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Commerzbank is updating its existing payment platform in Germany to process cross-border payments via the SWIFT network and to process high-value and urgent payments via the TARGET 2 or EURO 1 payment systems. To achieve this, the Bank is using the TRAVIC-Payment Hub developed by… Read More

January 25, 2024 @ 12:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Worldline [Euronext: WLN], a global enabler of payment services, is further expanding and enriching its partnership with Commerzbank. This extension enables Commerzbank to “offer its customers in Austria, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and the United Kingdom the sending and receiving of real-time transfers in… Read More

July 27, 2023 @ 8:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Commerzbank is reportedly the first German bank to have completed a blockchain-based Letter of Credit (LC) transaction for its client, Ascentex Exim LLP, a Singapore-based textile trader, on Contour, a digital trade finance platform. The LC was issued for “a shipment of rubber threads from… Read More

February 14, 2023 @ 3:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

T-Systems and Commerzbank have signed a cooperation agreement “for collaboration in the industrial sector.” Together, the two companies are “developing a solution for fully automated supply chains with integrated financial services.” The Telekom subsidiary and the Frankfurt-based bank are “employing technologies such as 5G campus… Read More

December 5, 2022 @ 8:42 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The agreement with Commerzbank is a key milestone for the issuing solutions business of Nexi in Germany. Commerzbank has chosen Nets, part of the European PayTech Nexi Group, in order “to develop a streamlined and scalable solution for processing credit, debit, and prepaid cards which… Read More

March 9, 2021 @ 11:23 am By JD Alois  |  

Creditshelf Aktiengesellschaft and Commerzbank AG have announced the extension of a partnership that has been in place since 2019. Creditshelf is an online lending platform for German SMEs. Creditshefl, which was founded in 2014 and is based in Frankfurt am Main, arranges bank-independent, flexible financing… Read More

January 5, 2020 @ 6:42 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Germany-based lending company Commerzbank has reportedly finalized an agreement with activist investor Petrus Advisers, in order to increase its stake in online lending Fintech firm Comdirect. Commerzbank is planning to take over Comdirect’s business operations and aims to help the company reduce costs. The takeover… Read More

October 31, 2019 @ 7:54 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The venture capital division of Deutsche Börse, a German marketplace, has finalized a new deal that will make it easier for institutional investors to acquire digital securities. According to an October 30 press release, Deutsche Börse Venture Network (DBVN) has partnered with local Fintech firm… Read More

October 24, 2019 @ 7:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Commerzbank, Deutsche Börse and MEAG, the asset manager of Munich Re and ERGO, are examining and assessing the scope of distributed ledger technology (DLT) in post-trade services.  The partners recently performed the settlement of a legally binding secondary market securities transaction through tokens. Frankfurt-based Commerzbank,… Read More

October 13, 2019 @ 10:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Marco Polo, a trade finance blockchain that has partnered over 20 banks, is testing its first trade deal between Germany and Russia. The company’s pilot was announced on October 11.  Russian’s Alfa-Bank and Novolipetsk Steel Company (NLMK) will take part in the pilot. Germany’s Commerzbank… Read More

April 16, 2019 @ 8:01 am By JD Alois  |  

Commerzbank has partnered with Fintech Raisin to provide the first deposit portal for corporate clients in Germany. Raisin, in a release, said that their service has gained in popularity with consumers and now corporate clients are jumping in. Commerzbank is Germany’s largest bank in the… Read More

April 23, 2016 @ 3:02 pm By JD Alois  |  

Commerzbank, the  second largest bank in Germany, is intending on launching their own peer to peer lending platform. While many traditional banks are seeking partnerships with disruptive financial firms, it appears that Commerzbank has decided to take a path less traveled and strike out on… Read More