Helaba and the Savings Banks: A Partnership
At Helaba, we are a partner and service provider to the savings banks. Together, we want to actively shape and improve the future (videos: German only).
At Helaba, we are a partner and service provider to the savings banks. Together, we want to actively shape and improve the future. Our aim: to serve the Sparkasse’s customers even better. This is how we build success together. This includes, for example, financing solutions that take defined sustainability criteria into account, providing reliable support to the Sparkassen in their international business, and enhancing our visibility in our joint corporate banking business. Sparkasse Dortmund, Kasseler Sparkasse and S-International Südwest, together with colleagues from Helaba, explain what makes this collaboration special.
Powerful solutions for strong savings banks
A reliable partner providing solutions that support the savings banks in staying competitive and adapting to a changing banking landscape. This is Helaba’s guiding principle when it comes to the savings banks. It is a fundamental approach that continually gives rise to new innovations, improving efficiency and collaboration between Helaba, the savings banks and their customers.
Driving transformation forward
The transformation of the economy and local public services is the great challenge of our time. To ensure its success, local savings banks play a central role in supporting their small and medium-sized business customers and municipal utilities. We stand by their side as a reliable financing and advisory partner to ensure that the necessary investments can be made.
We are aware of our responsibility – this transformation makes economic sense, is environmentally necessary and will safeguard the future for our descendants.
Bianca Heldmann
Regional Director for Savings Banks and SMEs (Southern Region)
900 billion
Local energy suppliers must invest euros by 2030 to ensure the success of the energy transition. Source: Studies by Deloitte et al., EWI, the Boston Consulting Group and BDI; calculations by Helaba.
Offering public investment schemes
Public investment schemes are an additional component that taps into further funding for projects and enables people to have a say and share in the value created by the energy transition. They can be offered via the Sparkasse’s HelabaCrowd investment platform and easily managed digitally.
Strengthening international business
When a medium-sized company expands abroad, it needs partners with international expertise: savings banks and their centres of expertise, the S-Internationals, provide on-the-ground support to customers. Helaba provides its global network, its geopolitical expertise and its know-how abroad. It can reliably consolidate and process transactions. In this way, it acts as the face and voice of the savings banks abroad.
A relationship of trust with the Sparkassen and S-Internationals, together with Helaba’s global presence, are crucial to the success of its international business.
Michael Sager
Head of Sales for Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg, Savings Banks and SMEs
Further developing sales models
Helaba works in partnership with the savings banks in the corporate banking sector. By pooling their expertise, they are able to competently meet even the most complex needs of corporate clients. In addition to face-to-face contact, the Sparkasse’s range of services for this important customer group is now also available 24/7 via digital channels, in keeping with the times.
Davide Perillo has been Head of Corporate Clients at Kasseler Sparkasse since 1 June 2025. We visited him at the bank’s new premises.
We provide complementary solution components for the entire customer journey. This enables the Sparkasse, as part of the network, to harness its full strength when serving corporate customers.
Guido Engel
Head of Sales for North Rhine-Westphalia, Savings Banks and SMEs, Helaba
SPARKASSENPortal
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Helaba Crowdfunding Platform
With the HelabaCrowd investment platform, you can digitally involve members of the public in the financing of your energy transition projects and enable them to play a genuine part in creating value.
