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News and interesting facts: the komuno magazine

Get to know us. Here you will find our press releases, current topics on municipal financing as well as digitalisation and case studies on komuno.

May 6, 2021

Press
Press release – komuno and LPA create government subsidy portal for Rentenbank, the agency supporting Germany’s farmers and agribusinesses

Digitalisation firms komuno and LPA announced today the development of an online portal for the automated processing of grants and loans on behalf of Rentenbank. Germany's development agency for agribusiness, forestry and rural areas, Rentenbank lent over €6 billion in low interest loans last year, with farmers buying more machinery and rural infrastructure.
October 2, 2020

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Our platform komuno becomes 2 and grows and grows!

Digital platforms behave like toddlers. They grow to learn and be curious, adapt quickly to increasingly make friends and expand relationships. This also applies to komuno. A lot has happened since our 1st birthday.
October 1, 2020
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komuno is growing

Susan Niederhöfer hands over baton to Thomas Eitenmüller. Susan Niederhöfer, Managing Director of komuno, the digital platform for municipal loans, is on maternity leave from July 2020.
October 24, 2019

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Press release – Cooperation enables digital application process for promotional loans

komuno and IKOR simplify the loan application process for municipalities and development banks
October 1, 2019

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komuno hosts workshop on municipal financing at the “Deutscher Kämmerertag 2019”

Municipal loan platforms are an opportunity to streamline processes in local government and can help the municipal lending business transform its processes and extend its reach – this was in the conclusion of a workshop on municipal financing held as part of the "Deutscher Kämmerertag 2019" on 26 September in Berlin.
September 3, 2019

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Our platform celebrates its first birthday and there is more good news

66 participating organisations have so far put short-term and investment loans with a nominal value of more than EUR 900 million out to tender and successfully raised more than EUR 160 million.
June 17, 2019

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komuno milestones

A successful first six months
May 13, 2019

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OSP interface with komuno now live

Dynamic interface between OSP and komuno ready for testing by savings banks
January 2, 2019

Press
Press release – komuno opens up to all credit institutions

The municipal credit platform komuno, a joint venture of Helaba Digital and Lucht Probst Associates (LPA), will open up access to all banks outside the Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe from the beginning of the year.