Hans-Walter Peters

Hans-Walter Peters (born 3 April 1955 in Soltau) is a German banker. He is the current spokesman of the personally liable partners (i.e. head) of Berenberg Bank[1] and the President of the Association of German Banks, the main lobby group for Germany's financial sector.

Hans-Walter Peters
Peters in 2016
Born (1955-04-03) 3 April 1955
Soltau
NationalityGerman
OccupationBanker

Career

Peters earned a doctorate in economics at the University of Kiel in 1986, and started his career as a bond portfolio analyst with Dresdner Bank in 1987. He was head of portfolio strategy at DZ Bank 1989–1990 and head of the securities division at Frankfurter Volksbank 1990–1994.

Peters joined Berenberg Bank in 1994, and was named as a personally liable partner at the bank in 2000. As head of Berenberg Bank, he has significantly expanded the bank's activities in London.[2][3] In 2010, Peters and his co-chairman Hendrik Riehmer borrowed €72 million to buy a 21 per cent stake in Berenberg previously held by public lender NordLB.[4]

Other activities
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gollark: This is obviously just a ploy to ascend to staff status.
gollark: Well, traditionally, the pH analogy is used for "based"/"cringe" (or "acidified", really).
gollark: Okay.
gollark: ```c/* A C program vulnerable to buffer overflows. */#include <stdio.h>#include <stdlib.h>#include <string.h>void function(char *str){ char buf[16]; /* The following statement has a buffer overflow problem */ strcpy(buf, str); printf("Buffer size: %d\n", (int)strlen(buf)); printf("Buffer content: %s\n", buf);}int main(int argc, char *argv[]){ if (argc < 2) { printf("Usage: %s <string>\n", argv[0]); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } function(argv[1]); exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);}```

References
  1. "Hans-Walter Peters". Bloomberg.
  2. Christian Panster, Mark C. Schneider (24 January 2011). "Hans-Walter Peters im Interview: "Sie kamen mit Getöse – und gingen dann ziemlich leise"". Handelsblatt.
  3. "Unbeschadet durch die Krise: "Wir haften bis zum letzten Hosenknopf"". Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. 13 February 2013.
  4. James Shotter (November 6, 2016), Berenberg’s rapid expansion shows no sign of letting up Financial Times.
  5. 2018 Annual Report: Report of the Board of Supervisory Directors KfW.
  6. Board of Supervisory Directors and its Committees KfW.
  7. Board of Trustees Übersee Club.
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