Talk:Raiffeisen

Austria?
Raiffeisen banks also exist in Switzerland, and I believe also in Germany. However, Raiffeisen banks in one country have, AFAIK, nothing to do with Raiffeisen banks in other countries; Raiffeisen banks are (local) cooperatives. Since that's all I know, I don't feel qualified to clean up this stub. Lupo 10:09, 20 Feb 2004 (UTC)
 * It should perhaps be moved (certainly merged with) the recently-created Raiffeisen Zentralbank. Rd232 talk 08:51, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

The Raiffeisen banks are credit union that operate mainly locally. They are well developped in Germany, Austria, Switzerland. In each country they have a specific organisation and generally a national federation. The article Raiffeisen should describe the general characteristics of Raiffeisen banks and not only the situation in Austria. The article Raiffeisen Zentralbank could be used to describe the situation in Austria (see for example de:Raiffeisengenossenschaften in Österreich). — The international activities of the Austrian de:Raiffeisen International Bank Holding are not typical for this tradition of credit union. --Neumeier 11:46, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Please mind the following situation: The Raiffeisen cooperative movement started in Austria back in the 19 th century. It consists today of some 550 legally independent cooperatives ("Raiffeisenbank"), which are the main owners of 9 regional banks (mostly "Raiffeisen Landesbank"), which themelves are the majority owners of Raiffeisen Zentralbank AG. This article, as well as the newly created nl version, mix up these facts. Additionally one should conisder that besides the financial arm ("Geld", as described above) there is also the agricultural part ("Ware") which also uses the name Raiffeisen. Besides CH and D there are also developments in NL, as can be seen in the first two letters of the cooperative RABO - banks.

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.64.202.107 (talk • contribs) 10:52, 25 June 2006

All right. So is this Austrian Raiffeisen the largest one, does it deserve to be at Raiffeisen? If not, can somebody first write one or more coherent articles about the German, Swiss, and Dutch Raiffeisen companies? --Joy &#91;shallot] 15:55, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

Germany is considerably bigger than Austrian Raiffeisen, I think Switzerland slightly smaller. Origin was Germany, as Mr. Raiffeisen was a German. You may want to mention the Unico-Group (http://www.unico.nl/(shambs55ysvixo55acxuur45)/index.aspx), which is the international cooperation platform for banks which have a background similar to Raiffeisen. Sorry for just the IP as author - I just recognice I am only registered for the german language version of Wikipedia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.64.202.5 (talk • contribs)


 * I followed the suggestions and moved the page from "Raiffeisen" to Raiffeisen Zentralbank. -- User:Docu