Editing Frankfurt (section)

===Commercial banks===
[[File:Deutsche Bank Taunusanlage.jpg|thumb|[[Deutsche Bank Twin Towers]]]]
[[File:Westendtower-5.JPG|thumb|[[Westend Tower]], also known as ''Westendstraße 1'' or ''Crown Tower'', headquarters of DZ Bank]]
[[File:OpernturmVoll.jpg|thumb|[[Opernturm]], headquarters of UBS Germany, at the Opernplatz]]
In 2010, 63 national and 152 international banks had a registered office, including the headquarters of the major German banks, as well as 41 offices of international banks.<ref name="Internetredaktion-2012"/> Frankfurt is therefore known as Bankenstadt ("City of the banks") and nicknamed "Mainhattan" (a [[portmanteau]] of the local [[Main (river)|Main]] river and [[Manhattan]] in New York City) or "Bankfurt". 73,200 people were employed at banks in 2010.
*'''[[Deutsche Bank]]''' — Germany's largest [[commercial bank]]. It had 15% share of private customers and total assets of €1,900&nbsp;billion in 2010. Deutsche Bank ranks among the 30 largest banks in the world and the ten largest banks in Europe.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.manager-magazin.de/unternehmen/artikel/0,2828,623219,00.html |title=Größte Banken der Welt |date=6 May 2009 |publisher=Manager-magazin.de |access-date=3 October 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120405162347/http://www.manager-magazin.de/unternehmen/artikel/0,2828,623219,00.html |archive-date=5 April 2012 |url-status=live}}</ref> Deutsche Bank is listed on the [[DAX]], the [[stock market index]] of the 30 largest German business companies at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. In November 2010 Deutsche Bank bought the majority of shares of competitor [[Deutsche Postbank|Postbank]]. Its [[Deutsche Bank Twin Towers|headquarters]] are located at Taunusanlage in the financial district.
*'''[[DZ Bank]]''' — Central institution for more than 900 [[Cooperative banking|co-operative banks]] (''[[Bundesverband der Deutschen Volksbanken und Raiffeisenbanken|Volksbanken und Raiffeisenbanken]]'') and their 12,000 branch offices in Germany and is a corporate and investment bank. It is Germany's second-largest bank (total assets: €509 billion). The DZ Bank Group defines itself primarily as a service provider for the local Volksbanken and Raiffeisenbanken and their 30 million clients. The DZ Bank headquarters are the [[Westend Tower]] and the [[City-Haus]] at Platz der Republik. The DZ Bank Group includes [[Union Investment]], DVB Bank and [[Reisebank]], which are also headquartered in Frankfurt.
*'''[[KfW|KfW Bankengruppe]]''' — Government-owned development bank formed in 1948 as part of the [[Marshall Plan]]. KfW provides loans for approved purposes at lower rates than commercial banks, especially to medium-sized businesses. With total assets of €507&nbsp;billion (2017), it is Germany's third-largest bank. The KfW headquarters are located in the [[Westend (Frankfurt am Main)|Westend]] district at Bockenheimer Landstraße and Senckenberganlage.
*'''[[Commerzbank]]''' — Germany's fourth-largest bank by total assets (2017). In 2009, Commerzbank merged with competitor [[Dresdner Bank]], then the third-largest German bank. Due to the merger and the higher credit risks, Commerzbank was 25% [[Nationalization|nationalized]] during the [[Great Recession]]. It is listed in the DAX. Its headquarters are at [[Commerzbank Tower]] (259 meters), the second-tallest building in the EU, at Kaiserplatz.
*'''[[Helaba|Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen]]''' – Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen, or short '''Helaba''', is a commercial bank owned by the states of [[Hesse]] and [[Thuringia]] (''[[Landesbank]]''). As such, it is a service provider for the local [[Sparkasse (Germany)|Sparkasse]]n. Helaba is one of nine ''Landesbanken'' and is the fifth-largest in Germany. It is located in the 200-meter-tall [[Main Tower]] in the financial district, the only skyscraper in Frankfurt with an observation desk open to the public.
*'''[[DekaBank]]''' – DekaBank is the central asset manager of the ''Sparkassen'' in Germany. The headquarters of DekaBank are located at the [[Trianon (Frankfurt am Main)|Trianon]] skyscraper at Mainzer Landstraße.
*'''[[ING Group|ING Diba]] Germany''' – Germany's largest [[direct bank]], headquartered in [[Bockenheim (Frankfurt am Main)|Bockenheim]]

Other major German banks include [[Frankfurter Volksbank]], the second-largest ''Volksbank'' in Germany, Frankfurter Sparkasse and old-established private banks such as [[Metzler Bank|Bankhaus Metzler]], [[Hauck & Aufhäuser]] and [[Bethmann bank|Delbrück Bethmann Maffei]].

Many international banks have a registered or a representative office, e.g., [[Credit Suisse]], [[UBS]], [[Bank of America]], [[Morgan Stanley]], [[Goldman Sachs]], [[Merrill Lynch]], [[JPMorgan Chase & Co.]], [[Bank of China]], [[Banco do Brasil]], [[Itaú Unibanco]] [[Société Générale]], [[BNP Paribas]], [[Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken|SEB]], [[Royal Bank of Scotland]] and [[Barclays]].