GEFA Bank
GEFA Bank GmbH is a financial services provider specialising in independent manufacturer sales and investment financing of mobile assets. The company was founded in 1949 as a subsidiary of the Deutsche Bank, with its headquarters based in Wuppertal at the Robert-Daum-Platz. It employs over 500 personnel in seven branches nationwide.
From 2001 to 2025, GEFA belonged to the major international bank Société Générale and sold its products under the umbrella brand Société Générale Equipment Finance. Société Générale Equipment Finance was represented in 19 European countries as well as Brazil, China and the USA, with more than 100 branches.
On May 23, 2016, the GEFA Gesellschaft für Absatzfinanzierung mbH and the GEFA-Leasing GmbH merged to form the GEFA Bank GmbH. At the end of 2019, all branches, including the registered commercial branch in Berlin, were closed.
Products and services
In the area of investment funding, the GEFA offers mostly middle-class clients the following products:- Investment credits
- Finance lease
- Operating lease
- Rent-to-own
- Truck-Trailer-Rent
- VAT-funding
- Full-Service-Vehicle-Lease
- Insurance
- Loyalty card
- Sales credits
- Sales and distribution lease
- Purchase funding
- Rent-park funding
- Rent
- Refinancing
- Insurances
Funded products
Funding in the form of loans is offered by GEFA for goods within the areas of transport, industrial production and technology.In 2015, the organisation generated a new business volume of €1,899 million, with €1,203 million in the transport sector, €435 million in the industrial goods sector and €261 million in the high tech sector.