AKA at a glance

Extensive market expertise and reliable risk management form the basis for success in export business. Since its establishment in 1952, AKA has been working on this as a powerful partner hand-in-hand with other banks and companies. The joint goal is to ensure successful international export finance.

AKA offers its business partners optimum support in organising and managing their international trade finance transactions. With its focus on emerging markets, AKA covers risks in more than 70 countries.

Out of its strong domestic market, AKA has been pursuing a course of strategic expansion for a number of years in order to become a European trade finance institution. It is broadening its joint activities with European export credit agencies (ECAs). As a result, AKA is widening its funding base across the programs offered by European ECAs.

AKA company foundation

On 28 March 1952, the large commercial banks, the major regional and public-sector banks as well as the leading private banks in Germany established a syndicate. Under the management of Rheinisch-Westfälische Bank Aktiengesellschaft, Düsseldorf (one of the three precursors of the present-day Deutsche Bank AG), they founded Ausfuhrkredit-Aktiengesellschaft in Frankfurt am Main or “AKA” for short. The initiator was Oswald Rösler, a member of the Management Board of Rheinisch-Westfälische Bank AG.