The purpose of the company includes all activities related to the financing of natural and legal persons and the brokering of insurance, including the development and operation of software as well as the provision of services and consulting in this area, particularly the granting and brokering of consumer, commercial, and mortgage loans. The company may establish branches and subsidiaries both domestically and abroad and may participate in other companies both domestically and abroad. The company may acquire, hold, manage, and dispose of real estate both domestically and abroad. The company may acquire, hold, license, and dispose of intellectual property rights both domestically and abroad. The company may provide management services for affiliated companies. The company may undertake and/or utilize financing of any kind for its own account or for the account of others and, in particular, may engage in credit or security transactions (including the granting of pledges, security assignments and transfers, guarantees, indemnities, letters of comfort, compensation obligations, and economic advantages related to such transactions), for a fee or free of charge, with, in favor of, and/or in relation to liabilities of direct or indirect shareholders, subsidiaries, and other affiliated companies, even if such financings, credit, or security transactions are exclusively in the interest of direct or indirect shareholders and/or affiliated companies. The company may conduct all transactions and take all measures that appear suitable to promote the purpose of the company or that are directly or indirectly related to it.