Over the past 18 months, Commerzbank has been repositioning its corporate finance business to better utilise the group’s huge corporate franchise. Indeed, the German lender has established a reputation as Europe’s leading bank for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), counting about 50% of German companies as clients and becoming the go-to firm for the Mittelstand, the middle-ranking companies which are a key driver of the national economy.
In line with the Commerzbank 4.0 strategy, the lender's corporate finance division has been merged with the Mittelstandsbank to form an enlarged corporate clients division. This is a way for corporate finance to become more interwoven with the bank’s DNA, and provide customers with a one-stop-shop that offers the full spectrum of corporate solutions, from bilateral loans to the most sophisticated capital markets advice.
