Erste Bank intends to become Austria´s leading bank by 2015

Businessn.a. ♦ Published: September 10, 2010; 20:15 ♦ (Vindobona)

Erste Bank, the banking unit of Erste Group responsible for Austria, announced that it was planning to overtake Raiffeisen and become Austria´s leading bank by 2015.

Erste Bank intends to become Austria´s leading bank by 2015 / Picture: © Erste Group / Helmut Lackner

The bank plans to attract 180,000 new customers per year, but the bank was not focusing on new acquisitions. The bank also aims to attract about 33 percent of the Austrian corporate customers.

The bank management noted that the banks ÖVAG and Kommunalkredit were not objects of interest for Erste Bank at the moment, although it did not exclude the possibility of…