The company is represented on three continents (Europe, North America and the Asia-Pacific region) and oversees property financing in more than 20 countries.

ABC is a company formed by a group of investors led by Advent International, Centerbridge Partners and a subsidiary of CPP Investments.

In the years of the Nazi rule, the bank grew rapidly thanks to the bridging loan business which mainly targeted the funding of settlement and housing construction.

These sectors boomed following the massive increase of the armament industry that demanded accommodation for their workers, often designed as National Socialist ideal settlements.

[8]: 50  While chairman of the supervisory board Otto Kämper was a member as well and publicly praised the success of the government in the field of housing, democrats such as Arnold Knoblauch or Eberhard Wildermuth, who was in contact with conspirators of the 20 July plot, were still holding a seat on the supervisory board until World War II.