German financing landscape in flux

Germany is expe­ri­en­cing a gradual but serious change in the finan­cing land­scape. Banks and equity provi­ders conti­nue to be an important finan­cing part­ner. For some years now, howe­ver, alter­na­tive models such as leasing, facto­ring and the like have been gaining ground. Medium-sized compa­nies like to rely on models that are inde­pen­dent of banks.