In addition, however, he has continued to act as a personally liable partner of MERKUR BANK KGaA since October 2005, alongside his father Siegfried Lingel.

The MERKUR PRIVATBANK focuses on the financing of medium-sized companies, property developers and leasing refinancing, as well as the provision of business accounts.

For the MERKUR PRIVATBANK KGaA, the legal deposit guarantee of up to 100,000 euros per person is covered by the Entschädigungseinrichtung deutscher Banken (compensatory fund of German banks).

[5] In the case of the MERKUR PRIVATBANK KGaA the backup line amounts to 22 million euros per customer.

[6] The MERKUR PRIVATBANK is connected to the cooperative computer centre of Fiducia & GAD IT in Karlsruhe and uses their banking software agree21.