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Financing and Real Estate
Siemens Financial Services (SFS)
With some 1,700 employees and an international network of com-
panies, SFS offers a broad array of financial solutions in the areas
of sales and investment financing, treasury services, fund manage-
ment and insurance.
Our business has two main pillars. First, we are
Siemens’ global center of competence for financing
and risk management. In this capacity, we are the pre-
ferred provider of financial solutions for the Company
and its Groups – offering, for example, treasury serv-
ices, project and export financing, insurance, and pen-
sion asset management. We also make equity invest-
ments in infrastructure projects in which Siemens is
involved.
Second, we provide financial services to external clients
– a business that is becoming increasingly important
for us. Today, we support a wide range of business-to-
business customers – many of whom, like Siemens,
are companies with international operations. Here, the
focus is on leasing and the related financing of capital
goods, receivables financing, fund management offer-
ings, and treasury consulting, including brokerage
services for employee-tailored insurance and asset
management products.
Our financial expertise, coupled with many years of
experience in industry and technology, enables us to
offer our customers unique advantages. Concentrat-
ing on the fields we know best – information and com-
munications, medical technology, transportation sys-
tems, power generation, and plant engineering and
construction – we partner with customers to develop
innovative financial solutions to meet their specific
business and industry needs.
www.siemens.com/sfs
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