Evangelical credit union
| Evangelische Kreditgenossenschaft eG | |
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| Country |
 Germany
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| Seat | Seidlerstrasse 6 34117 Kassel |
| legal form | Registered cooperative |
| Bank code | 520 604 10 |
| BIC | GENO DEF1 EK1 |
| founding | 1969 |
| resolution | 2014 |
| Website | www.ekk.de |
| management | |
| Board | Thomas Katzenmayer (speaker) Marco Kern |
| Supervisory board | Jürgen Kösters (Chairman) |
| List of cooperative banks in Germany | |
The Evangelische Kreditgenossenschaft eG (EKK) was a cooperative church bank that was founded by members of the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck . The EKK was open to anyone who could identify with the bank's Christian values. Since November 2011, EKK has been the first church and cooperative bank to be certified according to the European sustainability standard EMASplus .
The EKK was also recognized by the independent Top Employers Institute (formerly CRF Institute) in Düsseldorf for excellent working conditions as Top Employer 2014 Germany / SMEs.
After merging the business with the Evangelical Loan Cooperative , the company has been trading as Evangelische Bank eG since 2014 .
history
In Kassel, representatives of the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck signed the founding document for the foundation of the EKK on December 4, 1969. After entry in the cooperative register and official permission to conduct banking business, the Evangelical Credit Cooperative Kurhessen started operations in Kassel in January 1970 . The bank quickly grew through institutional customers from church and diakonia. At the end of 1970 the bank was able to book around DM 57 million instead of the expected total assets of DM 20 million.
In October 1970 the EKK opened a representative office in Frankfurt am Main . The good development also attracted attention and further members to the EKK beyond the catchment area of the Kurhessisch-Waldeckschen regional church. The spatial expansion was taken into account with the renaming to "Evangelische Kreditgenossenschaft eG" and further branches were founded. After German reunification in 1990, the EKK opened a branch in Eisenach . In 1991 the first own investment fund was launched ( eco-equity fund ). In 1998 an EKK representative office opened in Vienna .
In 2005 the EKK and the Acredobank , formerly the savings and credit bank of Evang.-Luth , joined forces . Church in Bavaria to form a joint credit institution. The Acredobank branches in Nuremberg , Munich , Schwerin , Neuendettelsau and Rummelsberg were integrated into the EKK branch network. In 2011 the EKK opened an advisory office in Erfurt and in 2012 a branch in Berlin .
In February 2014 plans were published to merge with the Evangelical Loan Cooperative. On June 27 and 30, 2014, respectively, the general meetings of the EDK and the EKK approved the merger. The new credit institution is called Evangelische Bank .
subsidiary company
- Direct Services AG (DS AG)
- EKK Research GmbH
- Mietgrund Immobilien GmbH & Co. Liegenschaften KG
Web links
- Official homepage of the credit institution
- EKK portrait at the Top Employers Institute
- Evangelical credit union in BaFin's corporate database
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Master data of the credit institute at the Deutsche Bundesbank
- ↑ Customer Newsletter No. 1 ( Memento of the original from March 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 359; KB) , electronic version, accessed on February 26, 2014.
- ↑ Press release: "The merger to form the largest church bank in Germany was successful" ( Memento from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) , electronic version, accessed on July 4, 2014.
- ↑ Press release on the merger ( Memento from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), press release from Evangelische Kreditgenossenschaft eG, Kassel, from June 30, 2014, accessed on July 2, 2014.
Coordinates: 51 ° 18 ′ 48.9 " N , 9 ° 29 ′ 23.4" E