Investment and Transaction Banking

Our departments

Capital Markets

Capital Markets advises, structures, syndicates and realises financing solutions in debt and equity capital in the primary market business. In the secondary market business, currency, interest and raw materials based investment- and risk management solutions are offered, and business and trade processes are digitised. Our presence covers Germany and numerous international locations in Europe, America and Asia.

Capital Markets Bonds supports clients during foreign capital transactions (except for loans) in the entire value-added chain of bonds, including new issues, secondary trading and investments.

Corporate Finance Advisory offers advice and services for private and public transactions, M&A, growth financing, restructuring as well as complex financing transactions along the entire value-added chain for corporate clients.

Financial Markets offers a wide range of foreign currencies, interest and raw material products as well as solutions for processing, financing and risk management; it consists of teams for FX spot, FX forward, interest, options and raw materials and includes sales services for financial institutions as well as digital platform services.

Financial Markets Corporate Sales supports companies during risk and investment management with capital market products in currencies, interest and raw materials as well as individual investment solutions.

Syndicated Finance offers custom financing solutions for all asset classes from investment grade to sub-investment grade and combines structuring competence with global distribution channels.

Corporate M&A and Investments

Corporate M&A and Investments develops and assesses M&A options, implements M&A transactions for the Group and delivers the assessment and the accounting and reporting of investments:

Corporate M&A is responsible for M&A transactions such as the purchases and sales of companies and parts of companies, capital market-oriented transactions and strategic equity joint ventures. The range of tasks also includes the conducting of due diligence processes.

Management Investments manages the shareholdings and subsidiaries of the Bank, reviews their intrinsic value, coordinates shareholding-related transactions and safeguards shareholder rights of the Bank with its shareholdings. Furthermore, the team supports the mandates of Commerzbank employees.

Accounting Small and Medium Entities is responsible for the accounting, reporting and preparation of the annual financial statements for the domestic non-Bank subsidiaries as well as affiliated companies and shareholdings of the Commerzbank.

Institutionals Clients and Transaction Banking Sales

The executive division Institutional Clients & Transaction Banking Sales (ICTBS) within the corporate client segment has the client responsibility and marketing competence for domestic and foreign credit institutions, central banks and selected non-bank financial institutions (e.g. insurance providers, pension funds, etc.). In addition, it is responsible for the domestic and foreign sales units, which, with their expertise, take care of the cash management and trade finance business of our corporate clients. In these business fields, we support our clients worldwide - in our foreign branches, subsidiaries as well as in the representative offices everywhere in the economic centres of the world – with the goal of doing justice to the performance demands of our clients and further intensifying the business relationships.

Investor Relations

The goal is to achieve an appropriate assessment of the Commerzbank in the stock and bond market through open dialogue and the provision of reliable information on business development and perspectives, with employees from Group divisions and subsidiaries providing support.

Lending

Asset Finance concentrates on the provision of working capital solutions, asset-backed securitisation, aircraft financing and other custom financing solutions for clients of the Commerzbank.

Center of Competence Green Infrastructure Finance supports companies worldwide in the field of renewable energies with comprehensive knowhow and offers bilateral and syndicated project financing as well as corporate banking services.

Corporate Lending is responsible for the regional corporate client loan business and XVA portfolio, improves client rentability and capital efficiency, monitors the Loan Book, and implements hedging and sales strategies for risk diversification. The products include corporate guarantees, revolving credit lines, long-term loans and borrower’s note loans.

Financial Engineering offers custom financing solutions and support during the ESG transformation and is active throughout Germany as well as in Prague, Zurich, Vienna, Paris and Amsterdam.

Specialised Lending offers custom financing solutions for export and import clients, often secured by export credit insurers and is supplemented by the Leveraged Finance Team, which structures and carries out acquisition financing for companies acquired by financial sponsors.

Transaction Management manages and monitors transactions daily, coordinates the introduction of new products, supports new business and refinancings, provides support for existing loans, processes changes and restructurings, ensures compliance with regulations, and reviews the data quality.

Process and Digital Transformation optimises and digitises corporate client loan processes through short-term and long-term measures and works closely with distribution, risk management, delivery organisation and operations.

Treasury

Treasury supports the business divisions by the provision of liquidity and funding and assumes and controls the resulting interest, FX and liquidity risks. The mission of the Treasury also includes the management of the central bank accounts and liquidity reserves of the Bank. The most important goal of the Treasury is to guarantee the liquidity of the Commerzbank at all times.

Global Liquidity and Risk Management guarantees the liquidity for the Commerzbank, manages the interest risk from the business divisions and implements the refinancing strategies of the money markets.

Asset Liability Management is the expert team of the Treasury for interest and liquidity risk management, which provides the methods and models for risk identification and implements the refinancing strategy of the Bank in the capital markets.

Treasury COO assumes operative support of the Treasury traders, is responsible for the strategic further development of the division as well as the preparation of worldwide guidelines for Treasury.