Germany · Financial institution
Nrw. Bank
Legal name in the LEI recordNRW.BANK
NRW.BANK is a public-law institution (Anstalt des öffentlichen Rechts) with seats in Düsseldorf and Münster. It is the promotional bank of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, which is its owner and explicitly guarantees its obligations. It provides promotional loans, equity finance and advisory services in three fields: economy, housing and infrastructure/municipalities. It works on a competition-neutral basis with the banks and savings banks in the state and describes itself as the second-largest promotional institution in Germany.
Licences and registrations
Matched by LEI on the 22 tracked registers
None matched by LEI in the 22 tracked registers.
- The tracked registers cover payment, e-money, crypto and money-service firms in 37 countries. Bank licences from national supervisors are not tracked.
European registers
ECB · monetary financial institutions
List as at 2026-09-25
- Category
- Credit institution
- Minimum reserves
- Subject to minimum reserves
- Listed as
- NRW.BANK
- RIAD code
- DE05740
Entries are matched on the LEI. Each register is quoted as its publisher lists it.
Swift network
Swift’s ISO 9362 BIC directory
- BIC
- NRWBDEDMXXX head office
- Connection to Swift
- Connected to SwiftThis BIC is registered as a live address on the Swift network. The institution sends and receives Swift messages under NRWBDEDM directly.
- Swift GPI
- Not on the member list
- Payment schemes and systems
- SCT · SDD Core · SDD B2B · T2
- Branch codes
- 1 branch code
- BIC first registered
- 2002-09-07
- Last updated
- 2009-10-31
Overview
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
Employees
Not published
Ownership
State-owned
State of North Rhine-Westphalia (Land Nordrhein-Westfalen)
Institution type
Development bank
- Ownership
- The bank names the State of North Rhine-Westphalia as its owner, and the state explicitly guarantees its obligations.
- Direct parent
- State of North Rhine-Westphalia (Land Nordrhein-Westfalen), Germany
- Head office
- Kavalleriestraße 22, 40213 Düsseldorf, Germany (registered office: Second seat: Friedrichstraße 1, 48145 Münster, Germany (registered under HR A 5300, Amtsgericht Münster))
- Company register
- HR A 15277, Amtsgericht Düsseldorf; HR A 5300, Amtsgericht Münster
Business lines
The bank works in three promotional fields: economy (start-ups and SMEs), housing, and infrastructure and municipalities. It uses promotional loans, equity finance, risk sharing with house banks and advisory services.
Online
- Websites & references
- nrwbank.de ↗
nrwbank.de/en ↗ English-language version of the corporate site
kundenportal.nrwbank.de ↗ customer portal
kommunenportal.nrwbank.de ↗ portal for municipal customers
Wikipedia ↗
Wikidata Q1768158 ↗ - Official social accounts
- LinkedIn ↗ · Instagram ↗ · YouTube ↗ · XING ↗ · kununu ↗
Sources · 11 pages consulted
- nrwbank.de/de/impressum/
- nrwbank.de/de/die-nrw-bank/dafuer-stehen-wir/vorstand/
- nrwbank.de/de/info-und-service/presseinformationen/2026/260929_PI_Vorstand.html
- nrwbank.de/de/die-nrw-bank/investor-relations/
- nrwbank.de/.galleries/downloads/Info-und-Service/Finanzberichte/Lagebericht-und-Jahresabschluss-2025
- nrwbank.de/export/.galleries/downloads/Info-und-Service/Finanzberichte/nrwbank-finanzbericht-2025.pd
- nrwbank.de/export/.galleries/downloads/Info-und-Service/Finanzberichte/nrwbank-finanzbericht-2024.pd
- nrwbank.de/en/news/2026/260201_PI-Personalie-Pantring.html
- nrwbank.de/export/.galleries/downloads/Rechtliche-Grundlagen/SSI_of_NRW.BANK_securities.pdf
- nrwbank.de
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NRW.Bank
Leadership
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
- Chief executive
-
Gabriela Pantring
Vorsitzende des Vorstands (Chairwoman of the Managing Board)
- Chair
- Mona Neubaur Vorsitzende des Verwaltungsrates (Chairwoman of the Supervisory Board); NRW Minister for Economic Affairs
- Chief financial officer
-
Claudia Hillenherms
Mitglied des Vorstands (Finance, IT and Digitalisation, Organisation and Services, Housing Promotion); leaving 31 May 2027
- Executive
-
Dr. Peter Stemper
Stellvertretender Vorstandsvorsitzender (Deputy Chairman and Chief Risk Officer)
- Executive
- Johanna Antonie Tjaden-Schulte Mitglied des Vorstands
Supervisors & regulators
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
- Germany
- Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) Prudential supervisorAML supervisorResolutionConduct
- Germany
- Deutsche Bundesbank Central bankPrudential supervisor
- Germany
- Ministry of Finance of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia Other
Recent events
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
-
Leadership
The Supervisory Board appointed Dr. Andreas Kamp to the Managing Board from 1 June 2027. He succeeds Claudia Hillenherms, who retires on 31 May 2027.
nrwbank.de ↗ -
Leadership
Gabriela Pantring became Chairwoman of the Managing Board on 1 February 2026. She succeeded Eckhard Forst, who retired at the end of January 2026.
nrwbank.de ↗ -
Other
Pension and allowance obligations for defined former Westdeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale staff passed economically to the State of North Rhine-Westphalia on 1 January 2026.
nrwbank.de ↗ -
Leadership
Johanna Tjaden-Schulte joined the Managing Board on 1 October 2024. Dr. Peter Stemper had joined on 1 July 2024, when Michael Stölting retired.
nrwbank.de ↗
Compliance-relevant events of the last three years, newest first: fines and enforcement, investigations, incidents, leadership changes, mergers and licence changes. Each links to its source.
Identifiers
Head-office record
- BIC
- NRWBDEDMXXX
- How the BIC breaks down
- NRWBBank
- DECountry · Germany
- DMLocation
- XXXBranch · head office
- Branch description
- Not recorded in the directory
- LEI
- 52990002O5KK6XOGJ020
- LEI record
- View on GLEIF ↗
- How the LEI was matched
- BIC: Mapped to this BIC in the Swift and GLEIF BIC-to-LEI relationship file.
- National bank code
- Bankleitzahl 30022000 + 1 more
Profile
- Type
- Financial institutionClassified as a financial institution in Swift’s ISO 9362 BIC directory, with no licence on a tracked register. This includes banks that neither the ECB nor the FSB lists, as well as brokers, fund managers, insurers and market infrastructure.
- Regulation
- Not on a tracked registerNo licence or registration was found for this entity on the registers the directory tracks, or on the ECB and FSB bank lists. Most banks are licensed by national supervisors whose registers are not tracked yet. This does not mean that the institution is unregulated.
- Register licences
- None matched by LEI in the 22 tracked registersThe tracked registers cover payment, e-money, crypto and money-service firms in 37 countries. Bank licences from national supervisors are not tracked.
- Country · region
- Germany · Europe & Central Asia
- Banking supervision
- Not on the ECB's list of supervised entities as of 2026-07-01
- Trading venues (MIC)
- No MIC registered under this LEI list of 2026-09-17
- OFAC sanctions
- No listing cites this BIC
- EU sanctions
- No listing matched this BIC or its LEI
- Country sanctions
- No country programme
- Founded
- 2002
Types come from Swift’s BIC classification, the licences on the 22 tracked registers, and the ECB and FSB bank lists. Most banks outside the euro area appear as financial institutions, because their supervisors’ registers are not tracked yet.
No licence or registration was found for this entity on the 22 registers the directory tracks, or on the ECB and FSB bank lists. Most banks are licensed by national supervisors whose registers are not tracked yet. This does not mean that the institution is unregulated.
Ownership and group
GLEIF relationship records
GLEIF’s relationship records name no parent for this LEI, and no group page is published for it.
Addresses
- Registered address
- FRIEDRICHSTRASSE 1 MUENSTER 48145 GERMANY
- Operational address
- KAVALLERIESTR. 22 DUESSELDORF 40213 DUESSELDORF GERMANY
ISO 20022 identification
As an agent in a Swift cross-border payment message (CBPR+)
A CBPR+ message identifies this institution by its BIC, and may add its LEI or a clearing code. CBPR+ does not allow a name and postal address next to a BIC.
- Identified by
- BIC, with its LEI and its DEBLZ clearing code
- Roles in CBPR+
- Any agent, including the instructing and instructed agents
CBPR+
For cross-border payments on Swift: the BIC, with the LEI and clearing code where known
<FinInstnId>
<BICFI>NRWBDEDMXXX</BICFI>
<ClrSysMmbId>
<ClrSysId>
<Cd>DEBLZ</Cd>
</ClrSysId>
<MmbId>30022000</MmbId>
</ClrSysMmbId>
<LEI>52990002O5KK6XOGJ020</LEI>
</FinInstnId>Full record
Every ISO 20022 element the directory holds. Base ISO 20022 allows them together. CBPR+ does not allow a name and address next to a BIC
<FinInstnId>
<BICFI>NRWBDEDMXXX</BICFI>
<ClrSysMmbId>
<ClrSysId>
<Cd>DEBLZ</Cd>
</ClrSysId>
<MmbId>30022000</MmbId>
</ClrSysMmbId>
<LEI>52990002O5KK6XOGJ020</LEI>
<Nm>NRW. BANK</Nm>
<PstlAdr>
<Ctry>DE</Ctry>
<AdrLine>FRIEDRICHSTRASSE 1 MUENSTER 48145</AdrLine>
</PstlAdr>
</FinInstnId>Swift’s two address fields do not agree on a town, so the full record gives the address as address lines only.
The BIC, name and address are as published in Swift’s BIC directory. The LEI comes from the Swift and GLEIF BIC-to-LEI file. Check them against your own records before use.
Payment schemes and systems
EPC registers of 2026-09-11 · ECB T2 list of 2026-07-02 · ECB TIPS list of 2026-09-01 · SIX Bank Master valid on 2026-09-28
| Scheme or system | Since | Registered with | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| SEPA Credit TransferISO 20022 messages | 2010-05-03 | Head office | — |
| SEPA Direct Debit CoreISO 20022 messages | 2010-11-01 | Head office | — |
| SEPA Direct Debit Business-to-BusinessISO 20022 messages | 2013-04-08 | Head office | — |
| T2 (Eurosystem real-time gross settlement)ISO 20022 messages | — | Head office | — |
SEPA dates are when the institution became ready for the scheme. The T2 list names direct participants only and gives no joining date.
An institution missing from T2 may still be reachable through an indirect participant.
“ISO 20022 messages” marks a scheme or system whose rulebook or operator specifies ISO 20022 for messages between participants.
National bank codes
Bankleitzahl · Germany
2 codes valid until 2026-12-06 · ISO 20022 clearing system code DEBLZ
| Code | Routes to BIC | Name in the national file | City |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30022000 | NRWBDEDMXXX | NRW.BANK | Düsseldorf |
| 40022000 | NRWBDEDMMST | NRW.BANK | Münster |
Each code shows the name in the national file. Smaller banks often route through a central institution’s BIC. A code can therefore belong to a different bank than the one on this page.
Network
Branches and correspondent banking
One branch BIC connects to the head office. The bank publishes 8 accounts at other banks.
- Own offices
- Correspondent banks: it holds accounts there
Hover over a branch, account or group to see its details
Correspondent accounts
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
8 accounts at other banks, as the bank publishes them: nrwbank.de ↗ dated 13 Aug 2024
| Currency | Correspondent | BIC | Account | Purpose | Directory check |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Clearstream Banking AG, Luxembourg Luxembourg | CEDELULLXXX | 13197 | Securities settlement: Eurobonds and all listed markets except those below; also US government and domestic bonds via DTC/FBE | Matches the Swift directory |
| — | BNP Paribas Securities Services, Brussels France | PARBFRPPXXX | 48009H | Securities settlement: Belgian government bonds (T2S), CSD CIKBBEBBXXX | Matches the Swift directory |
| — | BNP Paribas Securities Services, Paris France | PARBFRPPXXX | 47155X | Securities settlement: French government bonds (T2S), CSD SICVFRPPXXX | Matches the Swift directory |
| — | Clearstream Banking AG, Frankfurt Germany | DAKVDEFFXXX | (SAC) DAKV4323000 | Securities settlement: German instruments other than government bonds (T2S) | Matches the Swift directory |
| — | BNP Paribas Securities Services, Milano Italy | PARBITMM103 | 758300 | Securities settlement: Italian government bonds (T2S), account at BNP | Matches the Swift directory |
| — | BNP Paribas Securities Services, Milano (Monte Titoli SAC) Italy | MOTIITMMXXX | MOTIPARBITMMXXX607200 | Securities settlement: Italian government bonds (T2S), SAC at CSD | Matches the Swift directory |
| — | BNP Paribas (PARBDEFF), via HSBC Tokyo Germany | PARBDEFF | 1030026391E | Securities settlement: Japanese government and other domestic bonds | Matches the Swift directory |
| — | BNP Paribas Securities Services, Madrid Spain | PARBESMXXXX | 46081 | Securities settlement: Spanish government bonds (T2S), CSD IBRCESMMXXX | Matches the Swift directory |
This is a PDF of securities settlement instructions (custody accounts by market), marked effective from 13.08.2024. No cash or currency nostro list was found on nrwbank.de or by search. Clearstream Luxembourg account 13197 is used for Eurobonds and most markets, including US DTC/FBE settlement via Citibank. For Japan, the PDF lists HSBC Tokyo (HSBCJPJTXXX) accounts 009-030065-312/-313/-306 in favour of PARBDEFF. The NRW.BANK final account there is 1030026391E. All distinct accounts have been extracted. Each correspondent BIC is checked against the Swift directory: a BIC missing from it, or registered to a differently named bank, may be a typo or out of date. Confirm settlement instructions with the bank before relying on them.
Branch codes
| BIC | Branch | City | Address | LEI | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NRWBDEDMMST | — | Muenster Westf | NRW.BANK JOHANNITER STR. 3 MUENSTER (WESTF) 48145 MUENSTER (WESTF) GERMANY | — | 2008-09-06 |
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