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Finanzgruppe Sparkassenstiftung für internationale Kooperation

Annual Report 2007 Annual Report Annual Report 2007

International Cooperation 2007 Projects and Partners s Finanzgruppe 2007

446 Savings Banks (Sparkassen) Balance sheet total 1,045 billion € Savings deposits 282 billion € Loans to customers 618 billion € Employees 253,696

11 Landesbanken/Girozentralen 1 (Regional Banks/Central Savings Banks) Balance sheet total 2 1,898 billion € Deposits by customers and financial institutions 3 925 billion € Debts evidenced by certificates 4 395 billion € Loans to customers and financial institutions 3 1,097 billion € Picture credits: Employees 57,796 S. 3 © S-Finanzgruppe S. 6 © S-Finanzgruppe S. 7 © Schafgans, DGPh S. 8 © VWU, Vietnam 10 Landesbausparkassen (Central Building Societies) S. 12 © Sparkassenstiftung Balance sheet total 51 billion € S. 18 © Christina Heuft, Sparkassenstiftung New contracts 34 billion € Capital outpayments 9 billion € S. 19 © Andrey Korshunov 11.2 million contracts with aggregate contractual S. 20 © Sparkassenstiftung Armenia savings volume 251 billion € S. 21 © Sparkassenstiftung Georgia Employees 8,698 S. 22 © Sparkassenstiftung Azerbaijan S. 23 © Sparkassenstiftung, Bank Respublika S. 24 © Marco Rimkus, Sparkassenstiftung S. 25 © Sparkassenstiftung South Africa DekaBank 4 S. 26 © Eva Schmidt Fund’s assets 192 billion € S. 27 © Sparkasse KölnBonn Balance sheet total 106 billion € Employees 3,553 S. 28 © Tian Xia, Sparkassenstiftung S. 29 © Marco Rimkus, Sparkassenstiftung S. 30 © Sparkassenstiftung Uzbekistan S. 31 © City of Essen 12 Regional Insurance Companies S. 32 © Niclaus Bergmann, Sparkassenstiftung Gross premium income 16 billion € S. 33 © Niclaus Bergmann, Sparkassenstiftung Employees 31,000 S. 34 © Rolf Grempel S. 35 © Bank BPD Aceh, Indonesia 1 Not including DekaBank 2 Including foreign branches as well as domestic and foreign consolidated Landesbank subsidiaries (excluding building Landesbausparkassen) 3 Not including foreign branches nor domestic and foreign consolidated Landesbanken subsidiaries (excluding Landesbausparkassen) 4 Figures for the given group International Cooperation, Projects and Partners Annual Report 2007

Annual Report 2007 | Foreword

Foreword

its successful project work, Sparkassenstiftung can rely on the support of all institutions involved in the Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe, secure in the knowledge that it can call on the widest range of financial expertise for its consultancy work.

The latest demonstration of this good coopera - tion is the Sparkassen Reconstruction Fund for South Asia. Following the tsunami disaster in December 2004, all of the institutions and companies that make up the Sparkassen- Finanzgruppe pooled their resources to set up this fund with a volume of some EUR 15 million. Since this time, Sparkassenstiftung has devel - Heinrich Haasis oped and steered consultancy measures for Chairman of the Board of Trustees and President local banks in Sri Lanka and Indonesia which of the Deutscher Sparkassen- und Giroverband are using the fund’s resources to extend recon - struction loans to local small-scale entrepre - neurs in the regions concerned. After three Social engagement is a matter of course for years of successful inputs, project work was Sparkassen and their partners – be it in Ger - wound up in Sri Lanka at the end of 2007. many or in an international context. Working Consultancy in Indonesia is scheduled to be on this premise, the Sparkassenstiftung für continued with experts from German internationale Kooperation has the task of Sparkassen through to the close of 2009. passing on German Sparkassen experience to similar financial institutions in developing, Thanks to the financial resources of the emerging and transition countries. In so doing, Sparkassen Reconstruction Fund for South Asia Sparkassenstiftung makes use of state-of-the- and the development-policy know-how of