Erste Group

Erste Group Bank AG
	Headquarters at Erste Campus
Company type	Public
Traded as	WBAG: EBS; PSE: EBS; BVB: EBS; ATX Index component; PX Index component;
ISIN	AT0000652011
Industry	Financial services
Founded	9 August 2008 (October 1819 as the first Austrian savings banks)
Headquarters	Vienna, Austria
Area served	Central and Eastern Europe
Key people	Peter Bosek (CEO); Stefan Dörfler; Alexandra Habeler-Drabek; Ingo Bleier; Maurizio Poletto;
Products	Retail and commercial banking; Investment and private banking; Asset management;
Operating income	€10.552 billion (2023)
Net income	€7.228 billion (2023)
Total assets	€337.2 billion (2023)
Total equity	€28.5 billion (2023)
Number of employees	45,709 (2023)
Website	www.erstegroup.com

Erste Group Bank AG (shortened version Erste Group) is an Austrian financial service provider. It is one of the largest financial service providers in Central and Eastern Europe serving more than 16 million clients in over 2,000 branches in seven countries. Erste Group is headquartered in Vienna and operates as a universal bank.

Erste Group is the central entity of the Sparkassengruppe Österreich (Austrian Savings Banks Group) and the Österreichischer Sparkassenverband. It has been designated as a Significant Institution since the entry into force of European Banking Supervision in late 2014, and as a consequence is directly supervised by the European Central Bank. The main shareholder of Erste Group is the non-profit ERSTE Foundation.

In 1997, Erste Group went public and today the company is listed on the exchanges of Vienna, Prague and Bucharest and included in the indices CEETX, ATX and PX.