DLL has kicked off a new journey in which they leverage diversity and the power of scale and partnerships to help them in becoming a value-led , customer-centred business that will fuel growth — naturally .
Forwarding the Strength of Community Rafe shares the DLL story : “ DLL is a whollyowned subsidiary of Rabobank Group , which is a Dutch cooperative bank . The bank itself has been in existence for over a hundred years . DLL was launched in 1969 by five individuals who worked for Rabobank . They started up this little Dutch equipment finance company when a client asked if Rabobank would be interested in financing equipment and providing a lease product .”
Rabobank itself emerged from the Raiffeisenbank and the Boerenleenbank , two banks modelled on an agricultural credit cooperative established by rural German mayor Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen ( 1818-1888 ). Raiffeisen believed that credit