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Investor information Vienna, 27 May 2016

Announcement pursuant to sec. 93 Austrian Stock Exchange Act in connection with sec. 91 art. 2 Austrian Stock Exchange Act - Changes of significant shareholdings

Erste Group Bank AG informs the public pursuant to sec. 93 Austrian Stock Exchange Act in connection with sec. 91 art. 1 Austrian Stock Exchange Act that BlackRock, Inc., Wilmington, DE, United States of America, as of 24 May 2016 held 16,129,557 or 3.75% of voting rights attached to shares (previously 3.83%) and 867,226 or 0.20% of voting rights through financial instruments (previously 0.23%) in Erste Group Bank AG (rounded stake in share capital of 3.95% compared to previously 4.06%), thus combined less than 4% of Erste Group Bank AG´s share capital (EUR 859,600,000 divided into 429,800,000 voting no-par value bearer shares - ordinary shares).

Additional details as per esma notification:

Financial / Other Instruments pursuant to Sec. 91a para. 1 No. 1 BörseG

Type of instrument

Expiration Date

Exercise Period

Number of voting rights that may be acquired if the instrument is exercised

% of voting rights

Depositary Receipt

N/A

N/A

27.515

0,01%

SUBTOTAL

27.515

0,01%

Financial / Other Instruments pursuant to Sec. 91a para. 1 No. 3 BörseG

Type of instrument

Expiration Date

Exercise Period

Physical / Cash Settlement

Number of voting rights

% of voting rights

CFD

N/A

N/A

Cash

839,711

0,20%

SUBTOTAL

839,711

0,20%

Full chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the financial/other instruments are effectively held starting with the ultimate controlling natural person or legal entity:

No.

Name

Directlycontrolled by No.

Shares held directly (%)

Financial/other instruments held directly (%)

Total of both (%)

1

BlackRock, Inc.

2

Trident Merger, LLC

1

3

BlackRock Holdco 2, Inc.

1

4

BlackRock Investment Management, LLC

2

5

BlackRock Financial Management, Inc.

4

6

BlackRock Holdco 4, LLC

5

7

BlackRock Capital Holdings, Inc.

5

8

BlackRock International Holdings, Inc.

5

9

BlackRock Holdco 6, LLC

6

10

BlackRock Delaware Holdings Inc.

7

11

BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, National Association

8

12

BlackRock Fund Advisors

8

13

BlackRock Advisors, LLC

11

14

BlackRock Capital Management, Inc.

12

15

BR Jersey International Holdings L.P.

14

16

BlackRock (Singapore) Holdco Pte. Ltd.

15

17

BlackRock Australia Holdco Pty. Ltd.

15

18

BlackRock Holdco 3, LLC

15

19

BlackRock Group Limited

15

20

BlackRock (Singapore) Limited

16

21

BlackRock Asia-Pac Holdco, LLC

16

22

BlackRock HK Holdco Limited

18

23

BlackRock Asset Management North Asia Limited

19

24

BlackRock Cayco Limited

19

25

BlackRock Trident Holding Company Limited

21

26

BlackRock Japan Holdings GK

22

27

BlackRock Japan Co., Ltd.

23

28

BlackRock Investment Management (Australia) Limited

25

29

BlackRock Canada Holdings LP

27

30

BlackRock Canada Holdings ULC

28

31

BlackRock Asset Management Canada Limited

29

32

BlackRock Advisors (UK) Limited

31

33

BlackRock International Limited

31

34

BlackRock (Netherlands) B.V.

31

35

BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Limited

31

36

BlackRock Asset Management Deutschland AG

35

37

BlackRock Fund Managers Limited

35

38

BlackRock Investment Management (Korea) Limited

37

For more information, please contact:

Erste Group, Investor Relations, Am Belvedere 1, 1100 Vienna, Austria Email: investor.relations@erstegroup.com

Internet: http://www.erstegroup.com/investorrelations http://twitter.com/ErsteGroupIR http://slideshare.net/Erste_Group

Thomas Sommerauer Peter Makray

Tel +43 5 0100 17326,

Tel +43 5 0100 16878,

Email: thomas.sommerauer@erstegroup.comEmail: peter.makray@erstegroup.com

Simone Pilz Gerald Krames

Tel +43 5 0100 13036,

Tel +43 5 0100 12751,

Email: simone.pilz@erstegroup.comEmail: gerald.krames@erstegroup.com

This information is also available https://www.erstegroup.com/en/investors/news and on the Erste Group Investor Relations App for iPad, iPhone and Android https://www.erstegroup.com/en/investors/ir-service.

Erste Group Bank AG published this content on 27 May 2016 and is solely responsible for the information contained herein.
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