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The Bank fuer Sozialwirtschaft AG

Founded in 1923 by the six major non-statutory welfare organisations in Germany, the Bank für Sozialwirtschaft AG (BFS) is a bank specialising in the social and health sectors and geared towards organisations and institutions in the cooperative, mutual and non-profit sector. As a bank with a general vocation, it offers in particular:

• Payment transactions: current accounts, BFS-Online, Netbanking, Cash pooling, multipurpose account numbers system, web based fundraising tools.
• Asset Management: saving accounts, fixed-term deposits, securities, special funds.
• Lending: short-term overdraft facilities, long-term investment loans, Leasing, Factoring, trusted loans of the Federal Republic of Germany.

The main financing activities are concentrated in the social, educational and health projects and services, especially in:

• Homes for the elderly,
• Hospitals,
• Facilities for the handicapped/ Sheltered workshops,
• Facilities for the children- and youth welfare service,
• Rehabilitation homes/ guest houses,
• Facilities for the addict.

Furthermore, BFS offers consultancy services concerning banking, management and financing issues.

BFS is a non-quoted joint-stock company. The principal shareholders are still the six non-statutory welfare organisations in Germany: Workers Welfare Association, the German Red Cross, the German Caritas Association, the welfare services of the German Protestant Church, the Association of Non-affiliated Charities and the Central Welfare Agency of the Jews.

In 1997 BFS set-up an office in Brussels in order to assist customers implementing their European strategies. BFS Europa-Service offers individual consulting services. In addition, BFS offers an internet-based news system called EUFIS, which enables clients to get up-to-date information about EU funding possibilities as well as EU politics.

For more information please refer to www.sozialbank.de and www.eufis.eu.