Bafin

About Bafin

Effective, determined, and with foresight. For a stable and fair financial system that you can trust. This is the vision of BaFin - the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority. We are the central supervisory authority for banks and financial service providers, insurers, and securities trading. Our goal as an integrated supervisory authority is to ensure the functionality, stability, and integrity of the German financial center, to protect the collective interests of consumers, and thus to create trust. How do we achieve our goal? We ensure the solvency of credit institutions, insurance companies, and financial service providers. We ensure fair and transparent financial market conditions. We are committed to collective consumer protection in the financial sector. We proactively counter money laundering and terrorist financing. We pursue financial transactions that are conducted without the required license. We wind down financial institutions in the event of unavoidable insolvency. Together with European and international partners, BaFin is creating a unified European financial market and setting global supervisory and resolution standards. The approximately 3000 employees work at the Bonn and Frankfurt am Main locations. We offer secure and flexible working conditions with a comprehensive range of social benefits in the interplay between public administration, politics, and finance.