Deka Immobilien digitizes financing processes with Loanboox

Deka Immobilien digitizes financing processes with Loanboox

by | Nov 26, 2025 | Borrow, Media

Zurich/Frankfurt, November 25, 2025. Digitalization in the real estate sector continues to advance: Deka Immobilien, one of the largest real estate asset managers in Europe, will rely on Loanboox’s software solution to comprehensively digitalize its financing processes.

Financing tenders for real estate funds will in future be handled in a software-supported, standardized, and digital manner using Loanboox technology. This will enable Deka Immobilien to optimize its processes throughout the entire debt lifecycle – from tendering and bid evaluation to documentation.

“Efficient, transparent, and traceable financing processes are a key success factor today – both in transactions and in ongoing investment management. With Loanboox’s software, we are creating a structured, digital process that increases speed and clarity and supports our strategy as a modern asset manager,” says Victor Stoltenburg, Managing Director of Real Estate Acquisition and Sales at Deka Immobilien.

By using Loanboox’s SaaS solution, financing management and external financing partners will work together via a central digital technology in the future.

“Transparency, comparability, and professional collaboration with all parties involved are essential for us. Loanboox offers consistent, structured control of financing processes and creates data quality for informed decisions,” adds Axel Portz, Head of Transaction Structuring & Treasury at Deka Immobilien.

For Loanboox, the collaboration with Deka Immobilien marks another important milestone in the European real estate industry. The software is already in use in 18 countries and is used by institutional investors, real estate companies, and other professional borrowers.

“Deka Immobilien’s decision sends a strong signal: leading real estate investors today take a holistic approach to financing processes – with clear standards, data access and efficiency as their guiding principles,” explains Julian Grimm, Head of Real Estate Financing at Loanboox.

“We would like to thank Deka Immobilien for their trust and partnership. This decision exemplifies the change in the industry and confirms our vision of making commercial real estate financing in Europe completely digital, data-driven, and future-oriented,” says Urs Meier, CEO of Loanboox.

 

Loanboox – Europe’s leading SaaS solution for real estate financing & debt management

Loanboox’s technology is already in use in 18 European countries and is utilized by institutional investors, real estate companies, and other professional borrowers.

To date, more than EUR 35 billion in financing has been successfully placed using the solution, and over EUR 50 billion in loans are managed with it. The cloud-based software enables end-to-end, data-driven control of all financing processes – efficiently, scalably, and across teams.

Particular attention is paid to the use of artificial intelligence: the technology supports users in the automated reading of term sheets and contracts, in the efficient creation of financing documents, and through intelligent, targeted searches in data rooms. This opens up new potential for speed, quality, and informed decisions.

 

About Deka Immobilien

Deka Immobilien is the real estate investment specialist within the Deka Group and one of the largest globally active real estate fund companies in Europe. The company manages real estate assets of around EUR 55 billion. Further information is available at: www.deka-immobilien.de

 

About Loanboox

Loanboox is a provider of leading European B2B software for debt financing and debt management. The software enables financing experts to make the entire financing process digital, transparent, and efficient, from tendering and negotiation to ongoing portfolio management. For more information, visit: www.loanboox.com.

Contact persons

Swiss Fintech AG / Loanboox
Urs Meier, CEO und Julian Grimm, Head Real Estate Financing
Talacker 50, 8001 Zürich  
+41 55 220 78 20, press@loanboox.com

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GARBE Industrial opts for Loanboox – European financing technology wins leading logistics specialist

GARBE Industrial opts for Loanboox – European financing technology wins leading logistics specialist

by | Jul 24, 2025 | Borrow, Media

Zurich/Hamburg, July 24, 2025. The digitalization of real estate financing is picking up speed across Europe – with clear technological pioneers.

A particularly strong signal is now coming from the logistics real estate sector: GARBE Industrial, one of the leading developers, providers and managers of logistics, industrial and commercial real estate in Germany and Europe, is relying on the SaaS solution from Loanboox, the European specialist for digital debt financing and debt management.

In future, GARBE Industrial will use both the Financing Management module for structured tendering and procurement of debt capital and the Debt Management module. The software enables comprehensive management of the loan portfolio – with direct access to information on collateral, covenants, deadlines and the ability to carry out detailed scenario analyses. This creates an end-to-end overview of all financing processes – scalable, across teams and in real time.

“Digitalization is central to our pan-European growth strategy – also in financing. With Loanboox, we are creating transparency, speed and clarity across the entire debt capital process”, says Jan Philipp Daun, Managing Director of GARBE Industrial Real Estate.

Julian Grimm, head of Real Estate Financing at Loanboox, adds “GARBE is the perfect partner: a company that has grown strongly over the years, but has retained its entrepreneurial spirit and openness to innovation. It is precisely this combination that makes a productive and future-oriented collaboration possible.”

GARBE Industrial’s decision underscores a trend: more and more leading real estate companies are strategically reorganizing their financing processes – moving away from isolated tools and analog processes towards integrated platform solutions with clear workflows and real-time data access.

Philipp Schnabel, member of the Management Board and responsible for the Financing division at GARBE Industrial, emphasizes: “With Loanboox, we not only gain access to a strong network of lenders, but also a solution that allows us to manage several processes simultaneously and across teams – from initial contact to maintenance during the loan term. This saves time and creates transparency for everyone involved.”

Urs Meier, CEO of Loanboox, says: “GARBE exemplifies a new generation of real estate companies that are thinking about financial processes in a holistic, digital way. And they are not alone – we are seeing more and more established players making similar considerations and switching to specialized SaaS solutions. The development clearly shows that the market is professionalizing digitally.”

Loanboox – Europe’s leading SaaS solution for Real Estate Financing & Debt Management

Loanboox’s technology is already in use in 18 European countries and is used by professional investors, real estate companies and other institutional borrowers. To date, more than 35 billion euros in financing has been successfully placed via the solution and several billion current loans are managed with it. Cloud-based software enables end-to-end, data-based management of all financing processes – efficiently, scalable and across teams.

Particular attention is paid to the use of artificial intelligence: the technology supports users with the automated reading of term sheets and contracts, the efficient creation of financing documents and intelligent, targeted searches in data rooms. This opens new potential for speed, quality and well-founded decisions.

About GARBE Industrial Real Estate

GARBE Industrial Real Estate GmbH, headquartered in Hamburg, is one of the leading providers and managers of real estate in the logistics and light industrial sectors in Germany and Europe. For over 25 years, the company has been one of the most important independent cooperation partners for transportation and logistics service providers, trade and manufacturing industry. GARBE develops, buys and sells, acquires, lets, manages and finances high-quality commercial real estate in attractive national and international transportation and industrial locations. With a lettable area of around 7.1 million square meters and a project development pipeline of approximately 1.9 million square meters in Germany and Europe, GARBE currently manages real estate and fund assets of around 11 billion euros (as of 31 December 2024).

About Loanboox

Loanboox is a provider of leading European B2B software for debt financing and debt management. The software enables borrowers to organize the entire financing process digitally, transparently and efficiently, from tendering and negotiation to ongoing portfolio management. You can find more information about Loanboox at www.loanboox.com.

Contact persons

Swiss Fintech AG / Loanboox
Urs Meier, CEO und Julian Grimm, Head Real Estate Financing
Talacker 50, 8001 Zürich  
+41 55 220 78 20, press@loanboox.com

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f.l.t.r.: Julian Grimm (Head Real Estate Financing, Loanboox), Hasan Özbolat (Finance Manager, GARBE Industrial), Philipp Schnabel (Mitglied der Geschäftsleitung / Finanzierung, GARBE Industrial), Johannes Mahnke (Finance Manager, GARBE Industrial), Dominique Hügli (Chief Product Officer, Loanboox)

Loanboox 2023 with strong revenue growth and high traction in real estate financing

Loanboox 2023 with strong revenue growth and high traction in real estate financing

by | Feb 27, 2024 | Media

Loanboox, a leading European platform for debt financing, continued its growth in 2023 and increased its revenues by +95% compared to the previous.

The Real Estate segment performed particularly well. Revenues generated in Switzerland,
Germany and France with commercial real estate financing and software-as-a-service increased by
more than 300 percent compared to the previous year. The Public and Near-Public segment also
continued to grow in Switzerland, France and Austria. Here, financings for hospitals, retirement
and nursing homes as well as energy and transport companies contributed to the good
performance.

“We have successfully expanded our platform into the real estate segment, where we have seen
encouraging growth. We are satisfied with the past year and have continued our capital-efficient path, doubling revenues while reducing costs. We see great potential for 2024 to further drive the digitalization of debt financing,” explains Urs Meier, CEO of Loanboox.

Further growth across all segments in the core European markets is the main goal for 2024.

Real Estate: good traction in Switzerland, deals in Germany and France

Loanboox has been active in the Real Estate segment since 2022. Last year, the result achieved in this area already contributed 40 percent to the group’s total revenues. In 2023, a volume of more than CHF 400 million was transacted in Switzerland, Germany and France for projects in all property classes (residential, offices, commercial, hotels). The average loan size was CHF 15 million and the largest single transaction was CHF 60 million. In a challenging environment – with sharply rising interest rates and major uncertainties in the real estate sector – it has become clear that optimizing financing conditions, efficient financing processing through automated lender matching and active debt management are becoming increasingly important. With its brokerage services (refinancing, purchase financing and construction financing) and its software solution, Loanboox was able to generate significant added value for its customers.   

SaaS: rollout of debt management module

In 2023, the new Debt Management module, which enables debt portfolios to be easily analyzed
and managed, was significantly enhanced. Designed as software-as-a-service product, it is a 360°
solution for financial managers. Key features of the Debt Management module include portfolio
management and analysis, financial planning, market and scenario analysis, and covenant
monitoring. 

Public finance: Position in Switzerland maintained

Loanboox has been a close partner of the public sector in Switzerland since 2016. In 2023, the
company confirmed its position as the leading digital financing platform for public borrowers
such as municipalities and cities. There was also an increase in financings for Near-Public
borrowers, for example in the healthcare, water and energy supply and transport sectors. In
total, more than 1’000 enquiries with a volume of over CHF 12 billion were processed in 2023 in the Public and Near-Public segment across all markets. The development of financing strategies,
the simulation of borrowing costs and portfolio analyses were particularly in demand. Loanboox
has transacted more than CHF 31 billion in volume across all business segments since the
company was founded. 

contact

Swiss Fintech AG / Loanboox
Thomas Doriath, Communications
Urs Meier, CEO
Talacker 50, 8001 Zürich   
+41 55 220 78 00, press@loanboox.com

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Loanboox doubles revenue in the first half of the year: strong momentum in the new segments Real Estate Finance and SaaS

by | Jul 5, 2023 | Einblick, Finanzieren, Medien

Loanboox successfully closes the first half of 2023 with encouraging growth in its business segments Public Finance, Real Estate Finance and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). A total of CHF 2 billion in financing was concluded through Loanboox in the first six months. The fintech thus doubled its revenue compared to the same period last year.

In the Public Finance segment, with which Loanboox started more than six years ago, the market-leading position in Switzerland was further expanded. The need on the borrower side to obtain competitive financing terms is high and continues to grow due to the volatile interest rate environment.

High growth momentum in Real Estate Finance

In particular, the Real Estate segment, in which Loanboox has been active for just over a year, grew strongly and already accounts for around 40 percent of revenue: In a challenging market environment with rising interest rates, transactions with a volume of over CHF 160 million were closed in the first half of 2023. These transactions generate substantial efficiency gains for lenders and significant interest savings for borrowers. Loanboox’s customers include real estate companies such as Ina Invest AG, which is listed on the Swiss stock exchange SIX, as well as real estate funds and housing cooperatives.

SaaS: Loanboox further expands financing tool

Since the beginning of 2022, Loanboox has also been active in the Software-as-a-Service segment, offering customers white label solutions that enable efficient sourcing and management of debt capital. In 2023, the software was enhanced with key features and includes new tools for portfolio management, scenario analysis as well as covenant monitoring.

In recent months, various companies have already decided to use the software, for example Refolio Real Estate AG:

«We use the software to centrally manage all aspects of our real estate financing. It supports us with data-based decisions and forecasts as well as with reporting and traceability. Excel lists are definitely a thing of the past», says Nicola Haas, CEO Refolio Real Estate AG.

New leadership team takes over

Urs Meier, already a member of the Executive Board, will become the new CEO of Loanboox. He will take over from Philippe Cayrol, who is leaving the company at his own request at the end of July to take on a new challenge after around three years with the company. In addition to Urs Meier, Dario Zogg (Chief Technology Officer) and Dominique Hügli (Chief Product Officer) complete the management team.

Dr. Felix R. Ehrat will take over as Chairman of the Board of Directors. He has been a member of the board since 2020.

«Loanboox is one of the best-known fintechs in Switzerland and has successfully driven digitalization in the area of marketplace lending. I am delighted to now actively shape the further development of the company as Chairman of the Board and wish the new management team great success. The entire Board thanks Philippe Cayrol for his valuable contributions and wishes him all the best in his future endeavors», says Felix R. Ehrat.

Felix R. Ehrat was a senior partner of the law firm Bär & Karrer for many years as well as a member of the Executive Committee and General Counsel of Novartis. During his professional career, he gained extensive experience in the financial services sector as chairman and member of the board of directors of several banks.

Stefan Mühlemann, the founder of Loanboox, is stepping down as chairman for health reasons, but will remain a member of the board of directors. The board of directors is completed by Oliver Lang, who has been a member since 2022.

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Study results: ESG in real estate finance

by | May 9, 2023 | Borrow

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Zusammen mit der Hochschule Fresenius hat Loanboox Real Estate eine Studie zum Thema ESG in der gewerblichen Immobilienfinanzierung durchgeführt. Über 90 Führungskräfte, Finanzierungsspezialisten, Asset- und Investmentmanager und Experten der Branche haben Ende 2022 an dieser Studie teilgenommen. Erhalten Sie hier die Studienergebnisse.

Welche Auswirkungen hat ESG auf die Rendite von Immobilien? Werden nicht-nachhaltige Immobilien künftig an Wert verlieren? Als wie ESG-konform stufen Asset Manager:innen und Finanzierungsexperten:innen ihre Institutionen ein?

Diese und weitere Fragen hat die Hochschule Fresenius in einer Studie zusammen mit Loanboox adressiert.

Am 26.4. wurden die Studienresultate gemeinsam mit FPS in Frankfurt zum ersten Mal vorgestellt. Der Event war bis auf den letzten Platz ausgebucht. Das Thema hat die Real Estate Experten bewegt und zu anregenden Diskussionen geführt. 

Wir haben einige Experten-Aussagen für Sie gesammelt: 

ESG Immobilienfinanzierung
Nachhaltigkeit Immobilienfinanzierung
ESG Studie Immobilienfinanzierung

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