Sponsored Content
Raiffeisen
Vienna Stock Exchange: Winners and Losers (2011-05-26)
Daily News-Flash from the Vienna Stock Exchange: Upgrades & Downgrades, Winners & Losers.
May 26, 2011
RBI’s Results Above Expectations
The Austrian bank’s consolidated profit fell by 19.1% to € 270m, while analysts expected a decline to only € 253m. Net provisioning for impairment losses went down by 35.9%.
May 26, 2011
Fitch Upgrades Individual Ratings of Austrian Banks
The “A” rating of the big Austrian banks has been confirmed. The individual rating of Erste, RBI and Bank Austria was upgraded.
May 25, 2011
Vienna Stock Exchange: Winners and Losers (2011-05-20)
Daily News-Flash from the Vienna Stock Exchange: Upgrades & Downgrades, Winners & Losers.
May 20, 2011
Raiffeisen Insurance Grows
Raiffeisen Versicherung, part of the UNIQA Group achieved increases in almost all divisions, with a total premium volume of € 989m.
May 13, 2011
RBI Joint Bookrunner for € 1.75bn Bond
The bond, which is issued by Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena, is the second largest EUR-denominated senior unsecured issue by an Italian bank in 2011
May 10, 2011
Raiffeisen International Bank Intends to Get Further Involved in Poland
After the purchase of the Polbank in February, the Austrian RBI seems to be interested now in the Polish DZ Bank. Its chances are however considered to be low.
May 10, 2011
RCM - Raiffeisen Capital Management Company grew in 2010
Despite the international debt crisis and the repeated fears of a recession, money flowed back into the investment company last year.
April 23, 2011
Strong Profit Growth for Raiffeisen Landesbank Niederösterreich-Vienna
The annual income of the regional bank rose by 80.5% to € 308.6m. The operating profit grew by 57.8%.
April 20, 2011
Raiffeisen Zentralbank Posts 57% Increase in Profits
Profit before tax: € 1,292 million (+56.8 per cent) - Return on equity before tax 12.5 per cent (+3.7 PP).
April 15, 2011
Raiffeisen Bank International Posts Consolidated Profit of € 1.1bn in 2010
Consolidated profit rises 141.5 per cent year-on-year to € 1,087 m (pro forma 2009: € 450 m)
April 9, 2011
Economic Growth in CEE and Austria Remains Solid
Concerning the equity markets as well as the economic circumstances, Raiffeisen Research is quite optimistic. In 2011, a further economic recovery is expected.
April 6, 2011
Increase of Profits at RLB Tirol
Raiffeisenlandesbank Tirol registered a higher yearly net profit despite falling income. Risk provisions were greatly reduced.
April 5, 2011
RLB Upper Austria Records Massive Increase in Earnings
Raiffeisenlandesbank Upper Austria (RLB) shows an increase in operating profits by 66.1%.
March 21, 2011
Geinberg Thermal Springs are Expanding
The Upper Austrian Wellness facility is being expanded massively and gets its own luxury area.
March 15, 2011
RLB Upper Austria Intends to Grow in Russia
The regional bank Raiffeisenlandesbank Upper Austria (RLB) purchased a 2.95% share in the South Russian Krayinvestbank in Krasnodar.
March 14, 2011
Merger between Agrana Juice and Ybbstaler Fruit Austria
The sugar, starch and fruit group Agrana and Raiffeisen Ware Austria (RWA) are considering a merger of their fruit juice concentrate subsidiaries.
March 1, 2011
OMV Sells OMV Wärme VertriebsgmbH
The buyer is a consortium led by RWA Raiffeisen Ware Austria AG. The Austrian energy company OMV regards its heating oil business as being restructured.
February 5, 2011
ATX Forecast 2011: High Yields, High Volatility
RLB Niederösterreich-Wien predicts a very good year for security investments and expects double-digit yields.
December 29, 2010
Raiffeisen Foresees a Weak Decade for Europe
RLB Niederösterreich-Wien expects hardly any economic growth, particularly in the euro countries. Austria is however relatively well positioned.
December 28, 2010
Raiffeisen CEO Stepic: CEE Continues Being Europe’s Growth Driver
The boss of Raiffeisen Bank International Bank (RBI), Herbert Stepic, sees the CEE region continuing as long-term growth driver for Europe.
November 8, 2010
Bank Boss Confirms: Bank Tax will be Passed on to Customers
Massive criticism of the federal government is also coming now from the boss of Raiffeisen Zentralbank (RZB). Bank customers will have to bear both the bank tax and the securities tax.
November 8, 2010
Strabag: Time is Running Out for Deripaska
The re-entry of Deripaska into the largest Austrian construction group is to be fixed still this weekend. His comeback has been expected for several weeks.
November 5, 2010
Polytec: Withdrawal of RLB Oberösterreich?
According to market information, the Raiffeisen Landesbank Oberösterreich (Upper Austria) will separate from the auto supplier, who was badly hit by the crisis, but is writing black figures again.
November 4, 2010
Raiffeisen Participates in Bid for Polbank
Raiffeisen International Bank (RBI) tries to get into the act concerning the sale of Polbank. The eighth largest bank in Poland is currently owned by EFG Euro Bank, which is offering its Polish interest for sale.
November 3, 2010
Raiffeisen CEO Stepic: The Crisis in Eastern Europe is Not Over Yet
The RBI boss explains why recovery is taking longer, why his institute does not want to pay back the state capital yet, and why he considers that Raiffeisen is being treated unfairly.
October 22, 2010
Kapsch TrafficCom AG Issues a Corporate Bond
With the issuance of the bond, investments necessary for continuation of growth are made possible.
October 19, 2010
Raiffeisen Bank International: Official Start of Business
The merger was concluded successfully and effectively with the company's entry into the commercial register. RZB remains unchanged as the central institution of the Raiffeisen Bank Group in Austria and corporate headquarters for the whole RZB Group.
October 11, 2010
Raiffeisen Invests in New Branches in the Czech Republic
Raiffeisenbank a.s., the fifth largest bank in the Czech Republic, expands its network of branches in the neighboring country.
September 29, 2010
Deripaska: Back to Austria as Strabag Shareholder?
In 2 weeks, on October 15, the deadline expires for Oleg Deripaska to re-purchase his 25% share of the domestic construction company Strabag for about half a billion euro.
September 29, 2010
Lenzing places EUR 120 million corporate bond with mainly private investors
Lenzing AG, a world market leader in man-made cellulose fibers, placed a seven-year corporate bond with a coupon rate of 3.875 %.
September 24, 2010
Uniqa: Boss Klien Will Leave Mid-2011
The Supervisory Board of Uniqa has decided that CEO Konstantin Klien (59) will retire prematurely in mid 2011.
September 22, 2010
CEE Banking Sector Report: Still More Credit Losses in the East
The number of bad loans is expected to increase considerably in some Eastern European countries, a Raiffeisen-analysis shows.
September 21, 2010
Vienna International Airport: Costly Investment at Friedrichshafen Airport
The financial disaster relative to the new Skylink terminal, which will cost nearly one billion euro instead of 400 million, is certainly the biggest problem the airport’s top management is facing - but not the only big one anymore.
September 16, 2010
Erste Bank intends to become Austria´s leading bank by 2015
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.
September 10, 2010
Raiffeisen Centrobank AG - Interim Financial Report released
Raiffeisen Centrobank made the biggest contribution to the result of the group with a profit after tax of EUR 14.401 mn.
August 31, 2010
Raiffeisen Evolution shifting back
The real estate developer Raiffeisen evolution (RE) was significantly affected by the uncertainty in the property markets in 2009.
August 26, 2010
Stress tests could be price-sensitive information
At the political level it is fiercely debated how detailed the publication of the stress test should be. The FMA currently tests whether the stress test results are stock market relevant, compulsory publications.
July 14, 2010
Fast News Search
