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About Bayerische landesbank

Bayerische Landesbank (BayernLB) is the publicly owned Landesbank of the Free State of Bavaria, headquartered in Munich and operating as part of the Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe. Established in 1972 through the merger of predecessor institutions, it is organized under public law and is majority owned by the Free State of Bavaria with a minority stake held by the association of Bavarian savings banks. The bank’s core activities center on corporate banking for medium-sized and large companies, commercial real estate financing, project and asset-based finance, public-sector and institutional client services, trade finance, cash management, and capital markets services including debt origination, syndication, and the issuance of Pfandbriefe. The group includes Deutsche Kreditbank AG (DKB) for retail and direct banking, BayernLabo as the legally dependent housing promotion institute of the Free State within BayernLB, and asset management and real estate units such as BayernInvest and Real I.S. BayernLB operates primarily in Germany with selective international activities to support clients in key markets. It is supervised as a significant institution under the European Central Bank’s Single Supervisory Mechanism, with BaFin and the Deutsche Bundesbank also involved in oversight, and it is subject to EU resolution and recovery frameworks. The bank retrenched and refocused on core business lines following the global financial crisis, reducing non-core and higher-risk portfolios and tightening geographic scope. Funding is diversified across capital markets, secured instruments such as mortgage and public-sector Pfandbriefe (including green formats), and group-related sources, while the integration with the savings banks network supports distribution and client acquisition. Credit exposure is concentrated in Germany and in sectors such as commercial real estate, energy, infrastructure, and manufacturing, which ties performance to domestic economic conditions and property market cycles; interest rate and credit spread dynamics remain key earnings and risk drivers. The bank publishes detailed disclosures on capital, liquidity, and risk management under CRR/CRD requirements and provides audited annual and interim reports at group and parent levels.