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Financial profile · Q3 FY2026

A deposit-funded Central European bank with broadening earnings and acquisition-driven scale

Across its multi-year history, Erste’s earnings have grown alongside net interest and fee income, while operating expenses rose more slowly than revenue. Its established customer-banking model now includes a material Polish operation, making reported growth less directly comparable with the earlier period.

What is developing

The latest results show continued expansion in interest and fee income, alongside a substantial step-up in reported scale following the first-time consolidation of Erste Bank Polska. This broadens the group without, on these results alone, establishing a change in its underlying banking model.

What matters next

Whether net interest and fee income excluding Poland continue to grow faster than operating expenses in subsequent reports.

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Metric FY2016 FY2017 FY2018 FY2019 FY2020 FY2021 FY2022 FY2023 FY2024 FY2025
1.5B 1.7B 2.2B 1.9B 1B 2.4B 2.7B 3.9B 3.9B 4.3B
622m 558m 571m 738m 614m 607m 593.8m 632m 554m 550m
586m (180m) 86m 424m 974m 513m 961.8m 832m (492m) 2.1B
408m 407m 457m 468m 439m 391m 548.5m 315m 807m 856m
1.6B 1.5B 2.8B 3.1B 2.6B 2.5B 5.5B 13.9B 15.8B 13.3B
3.4B 1.4B (5.7B) (9.3B) 21.9B 7.9B (13B) (2.8B) (13B) (2.9B)
6.2B 3.5B (2.9B) (6.2B) 24.5B 11.4B (8.8B) 2.6B (9B) 4B
(807m) (636m) (541m) (591m) (550m) (548m) (478.6m) (528m) (746m) (753m)
424m 282m 51m 158m 198m 65m 245.5m (71m) (104m) (247m)
(383m) (354m) (490m) (433m) (352m) (483m) (233.1m) (599m) (850m) (1B)
499m 496m 11m 502m 1.2B (495m) (2m) (107m) (255m) 808m
(222m) (470m) (568m) (663m) (115m) (756m) (753.6m) (869m) (1.2B) (1.3B)
(69m) (30m) (271m) (36m) (8m) (56m) (900k) (44m) (81m) (94m)
208m (4m) (828m) (197m) 1.1B (1.3B) (756.5m) (1B) (1.6B) (630m)
1m 323m (21m) (32m) (123m) 43m (5.7m) 33m (123m) 34m
6B 3.4B (4.2B) (6.9B) 25.1B 9.7B (9.8B) 1B (11.6B) 2.4B