ERSTE BANK HUNGARY ZRT. KÖZPONT

Az Erste Bank Hungary Zrt. az osztrák Erste Group tagja, mely 1997-ben, az állami tulajdonban lévő Mezőbank megvásárlásával lépett a magyar piacra. A bank 1998. október 1-jétől Erste Bank Hungary néven működik és nyújt teljes körű pénzügyi szolgáltatásokat lakossági és vállalati ügyfelei számára. Magyarországi működése alatt a bank évről-évre a piaci átlagot meghaladó ütemben bővült, amelyet tovább erősített az az akvizíció, amelynek során 2004-ben az Erste Group Bank AG megvásárolta a Postabank és Takarékpénztár Rt. állami részvényeit, majd a két bankot integrálta.

Központi telefonszám: 06 40 222 221 külföldről: +36 1 298 0221

ERSTE BANK HUNGARY NYRT. is member of the Erste Bank group; its mother institution is the Erste Bank der oesterreichischen Sparkassen AG - a well-known name on the Central -European banking market with a 180 years history in Austria. History of the Bank The Austrian Erste Group entered the Hungarian market by purchasing the state-owned Mezőbank in 1997. Renamed Erste Bank Hungary Rt. on 1 October 1998, since then the bank has provided full-range financial services for its retail and corporate customers. During its eight years of operation the bank has expanded year after year at a rate that exceeded the market?s average growth, with an additional boost given by Erste Bank der oesterreichischen Sparkassen AG purchasing Postabank és Takarékpénztár Rt. from the Hungarian state then merging its two banks in Hungary in 2004. The merged bank?s name became Erste Bank Hungary Rt. (since June 2006 Erste Bank Hungary Nyrt.) Erste Group has become a decisive player of the Hungarian market by merging Postabank successfully, continuing the successes in the Czech Republic and in Slovakia. Erste Bank Hungary Nyrt. has grown to be the second largest bank in the Hungarian retail market and the sixth biggest in respect of its balance sheet total, securing strong positions in the area of investment services and leasing as well. The financial institution serves nearly 900, 000 private customers in its nationwide network of 150 branch offices, and owns, in addition more than 330 ATMs and about 650 POS terminals. The integration of the two banks was executed in eight and a half months, a record-setting time, as no one had ever been able to merge two financial institutions in Hungary under such a short time. By now, the IT migration of the account keeping systems has been completed. In the course of the integration the bank operated uninterrupted and it not only retained its market share but was even able to increase it in certain segments (for example in the area of housing loans).