Three Hesse cooperative banks plan three-way merger
- Location
- Rhein-Lahn / Limburg / Rheingau / Niederwallmenach (Hesse) · 🇩🇪 Germany
- Sector
- Banking
- Organisations
- Volksbank Rhein-Lahn-Limburg eG ↔ Rheingauer Volksbank eG / Raiffeisenbank Niederwallmenach eG
- Transaction
- Triple merger (planned)
- Volume
- Total assets: approx. €5.0+ bn
- Status
- completed
Three cooperative banks in central Hesse are planning a merger retroactive to 1 January 2026: Volksbank Rhein-Lahn-Limburg (total assets €2.8 bn), Rheingauer Volksbank (€2.0 bn) and Raiffeisenbank Niederwallmenach (low three-digit million range). Clarity on the deal is expected by summer 2026. Aim: Pooling of forces in the Hesse region. Update (9 Oct 2026): The representatives approved in June 2026; according to Rheingauer Volksbank's merger page the legal merger into Volksbank Rheingau-Lahn-Limburg took place on 16 Sep 2026, backdated to 1 Jan 2026, with the technical integration due on the first weekend of November 2026 (Rheingauer Volksbank, merger page, 9 Oct 2026; Rhein-Zeitung, 29 Jun 2026).
Source: finanzbusiness.de ↗ · Archived copy ↗
Further sources: rheingauer-volksbank.de ↗ (Archived copy ↗)
Evidence: 2 independent sources · based on reports (not independently confirmed) · How well sourced is Eurotrack?
More from: 🇩🇪 Germany