Erste Group comfortably meets the EBA capital requirement: capital ratio reached 9.9% as of June 201

Erste Group notes the announcements made today by the European Banking Authority, the Austrian National Bank and the Austrian Financial Markets Authority regarding the final assessment of the capital exercise and fulfillment of the EBA December Recommendation, which demonstrate the following result for Erste Group: the EBA core tier 1 ratio as of 30 June 2012, excluding retained earnings, reached 9.9% and thus significantly exceeded the 9% capital requirement.