Participation Capital: € 98m Interest Payment by Erste Group

Businessn.a. ♦ Published: May 31, 2012; 11:43 ♦ (Vindobona)

The Austrian bank pays € 98m in interest to the Republic of Austria.

Participation Capital: € 98m Interest Payment by Erste Group / Picture: © Erste Group / Christian Wind

Today, Erste Group Bank AG made interest payments amounting to € 98m to the Republic of Austria. The respective amount corresponds to the 2011 yearly interest on the participation capital (total: € 1.22bn) provided by the Republic of Austria in 2009. Erste Group paid interest in the same amount for the years 2009 and 2010.

Interest payments amounting to € 43m were also made…