Bank Austria Starts the Year with Net Profit of € 341m

Professional ServicesBanks ♦ Published: May 14, 2011; 07:09 ♦ (Vindobona)

Operating profit up by 8 per cent to € 851 m compared with Q1 2010, driven by strong revenue trend in commercial banking business and flat cost development

Bank Austria Starts the Year with Net Profit of € 341m / Picture: © Uni Credit Group Bank Austria

Bank Austria’s CEO Willibald Cernko: “We got off to a good start in 2011. The upward trend seen in the past few quarters continued in the first three months of the current year. It is particularly noteworthy that we have further improved our performance in commercial banking business with customers while the provisioning charge in Austria and in Central and Eastern Europe continued…