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Erste Group Bank AG

Erste Group is a major financial services provider in Central and Eastern Europe.

Lobbying Activity

Meeting with Jozef Síkela (Commissioner)

29 Apr 2025 · Investment opportunities in the Global Gateway

Meeting with Vanessa Debiais-Sainton (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Roxana Mînzatu)

26 Mar 2025 · Implementation of the Union of Skills

Meeting with Andrius Kubilius (Commissioner) and

25 Feb 2025 · Financial sector on defence, investment policies, EU regulatory framework

Meeting with Magnus Brunner (Commissioner)

25 Feb 2025 · Geopolitical situation and effects on banking sector

Meeting with Klára Dobrev (Member of the European Parliament) and BUSINESSEUROPE

3 Dec 2024 · Global competitiveness, financial needs of the EU and Central Europe in particular, results of the US Presidential Election

Meeting with Victor Negrescu (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)

8 Nov 2024 · Introductory meeting and EU budget 2025

Meeting with Lukas Mandl (Member of the European Parliament)

28 Oct 2024 · Deregulierung, europäisches Bankenwesen

Meeting with Florian Denis (Cabinet of Commissioner Mairead Mcguinness) and European Savings and Retail Banking Group and

21 Feb 2024 · important files until end of mandate: CMDI, RIS, digital euro, PSR/PSD

Meeting with Othmar Karas (Member of the European Parliament) and European Parliamentary Financial Services Forum

14 Feb 2024 · Miscellaneous

Meeting with Johannes Hahn (Commissioner) and

13 Feb 2024 · Current economic developments, the next long-term EU Budget, EU elections.

Meeting with Valdis Dombrovskis (Executive Vice-President)

22 May 2023 · Capital Markets Union; banking sector; EU economic outlook; Central and Eastern European markets

Meeting with Gilles Boyer (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

26 Apr 2023 · CRR3, Digital Euro

Meeting with Axel Voss (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur) and BUSINESSEUROPE and

8 Mar 2023 · Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence

Meeting with Tommy De Temmerman (Cabinet of Commissioner Mairead Mcguinness)

8 Feb 2023 · Retail investment strategy

Meeting with Luděk Niedermayer (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)

28 Nov 2022 · Meeting on AMLD6 and financial services files

Meeting with Othmar Karas (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

3 Mar 2022 · Reform der EU-Bankenregulierung (CRR3/CRD6)

Meeting with Mairead McGuinness (Commissioner) and

16 Nov 2021 · Introductory meeting, financial literacy, Banking Union.

Meeting with Florian Denis (Cabinet of Commissioner Mairead Mcguinness), Tommy De Temmerman (Cabinet of Commissioner Mairead Mcguinness)

9 Nov 2021 · Basel III and capital markets union.

Meeting with Johannes Hahn (Commissioner)

4 Feb 2021 · NextGenerationEU and future steps

Meeting with David Mueller (Cabinet of Commissioner Johannes Hahn)

2 Dec 2020 · NextGenerationEU and next steps

Response to Capital markets – research on small and mid-sized companies and fixed income (updated rules in light of the COVID-19 pandemic)

11 Sept 2020

We welcome the European Commission's consultation and strongly support the proposed exemption of research on SMEs with a market capitalization of up to EUR 1 bn. As one of the largest banking groups in CEE, we have been observing a significant drop in the availability of SME research since the application of the current cost unbundling regime. Given that and against the background that SMEs are the backbone of the European economy, we believe that the proposed exemption should be duly implemented, as it would allow brokers to bundle execution commissions and thereby incentivize them to provide more research on SMEs again. This would constitute an important basis for SME investment across Europe and increase market depth and width which is in line with many EU policy objectives, most notably the CMU. Finally, we fail to understand the criticism expressed by some market participants on the Commission proposal. The proposal clearly states that the bundling of research costs with other costs would be optional. Therefore, it is not adequate to claim that partially going back to the pre-MiFID II situation would constitute administrative burden or extra costs.
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Response to European Digital Identity (EUid)

3 Sept 2020

In general, the Commission’s assessment of the current situation seems adequate, especially since interoperability and extensions to digital validation are crucial for a sovereign digital market in Europe. Because of the different pace of digitalization across the EU, several Member States have already implementing digital validation on top of identification. This leads to fragmentation which further weakens the fundament for a single digital market unless common solutions are developed. When it comes to the 3 options outlined in the roadmap, we believe that the they should not be mutually exclusive but instead be combined in order to achieve a satisfactory outcome. For specific remarks and recommendations in this respect, please see our comments in the attached file.
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Meeting with Lukas Visek (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans)

24 Jul 2020 · Sustainable food systems

Response to Investment protection and facilitation framework

23 Jun 2020

We are pleased to see the EC acknowledges that EU law may not solve all problems investors may face in their activities and that there is an urgent need to improve the investment climate and investment protection. The development of a codified intra-EU investment law together with an efficient and effective new alternative dispute settlement mechanisms in line with EU laws is key to a flourishing intra EU investment landscape. In theory there is the same level of protection embedded in the EU rules but in practice some local courts do tend to avoid seeing the investor’s position vis-a-vis the local law and the local government. Relaying purely on local courts would not bring the investor the same level of protection as the international law does for a non-EU investor. Clearly this has to be remedied in order to ensure that intra EU investors are not left with the only prudent solution to steer their investment through a corporate seated outside of the EU. That would be in radical contrast to the idea of a Single Market. Therefore we are welcoming the Commission’s initiative to launch the consultation on intra-EU investment protection.
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Meeting with Eduard Hulicius (Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová)

27 Jan 2020 · Consumer protection

Meeting with Günther Oettinger (Commissioner) and Vereinigung der österreichischen Industrie - Industriellenvereinigung and

23 Apr 2019 · Future of Europe

Meeting with Eduard Hulicius (Cabinet of Commissioner Věra Jourová)

18 Feb 2019 · consumer creditworthiness regulation

Meeting with Florentine Hopmeier (Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen)

15 Nov 2018 · Promoting social investment on EU level

Meeting with Věra Jourová (Commissioner) and

25 Oct 2018 · the Erste activities in Brussels and quesitons of indebtedness and creditworthiness

Meeting with Paulina Dejmek Hack (Cabinet of President Jean-Claude Juncker)

18 May 2017 · Financial services agenda

Meeting with Věra Jourová (Commissioner) and Microsoft Corporation and

16 Jan 2015 · Round Table on Gender Diversity