Erste Group Bank AG (EBKOF) Q1 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

Erste Group Bank AG (OTCPK:EBKOF) Q1 2024 Earnings Call Transcript April 30, 2024 3:00 AM ET

Company Participants

Thomas Sommerauer - Head of Investor Relations
Willi Cernko - Chief Executive Officer
Stefan Dorfler - Chief Financial Officer
Alexandra Habeler-Drabek - Chief Risk Officer

Conference Call Participants

Benoit Petrarque - Kepler Cheuvreux
Mate Nemes - UBS
Johannes Thormann - HSBC
Krishnendra Dubey - Barclays
Mehmet Sevim - JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Gabor Kemeny - Autonomous Research
Riccardo Rovere - Mediobanca Group
Robert Brzoza - Pko BP Securities

Operator

[Starts Abruptly] First Quarter 2024 Results Conference Call of Erste Group. My name is Caroline and I'll be your coordinator for today's event. Please note this call is being recorded and for the duration of the call, your lines will be on listen-only mode. However, you will have an opportunity to ask questions at the end of the call. [Operator Instructions]

I will now hand over the call to your host, Thomas Sommerauer, to begin today's conference. Thank you.

Thomas Sommerauer

Thank you very much, Caroline, and also a very warm welcome to everybody who is listening in on behalf of Erste Group. We follow our usual conference call routine this time, so the call will be hosted by Willi Cernko, our Chief Executive Officer; Stefan Dorfler, our Chief Financial Officer; and Alexandra Habeler-Drabek, our Chief Risk Officer. They will lead you through a brief presentation highlighting the achievements of the first quarter of 2024. And after that, they are ready to take your questions.

Before I hand over to really my customary remark on forward-looking statements. As usual in this call, management will make forward-looking statements, and accordingly, the disclaimer on Page 2 of the presentation fully applies to those statements.

And with this, I hand over to Willi.

Willi Cernko

Thank