It was initially named Berliner Handels-Gesellschaft – Frankfurter Bank (lit.

[2] Also in 1970, the bank's high-rise head office [de], initially commissioned by Berliner Handels-Gesellschaft and designed by architect Sep Ruf, was inaugurated, by then the highest building in Frankfurt.

The majority of the bank's business operations, offices, and equity shareholdings were integrated into the newly founded BHF-BANK Aktiengesellschaft, which was then acquired by the private bank Sal.

Oppenheim was taken over by the Deutsche Bank in 2010; BHF-BANK, which has always operated on a stand-alone basis, was put up for sale.

In 2014, the bank pertained to BHF Kleinwort Benson Group, which was taken over by the French private bank Oddo et Cie. By mid-March 2016, Oddo et Cie acquired 100% of the Group's shares and has thus become BHF-BANK's indirect sole shareholder.