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BKS Bank AG
St. Veiter Ring 43
9020 Klagenfurt
T: 0043 463 5858-0

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Key Dates in BKS Bank’s History

1922	A. v. Ehrfeld enters into a limited partnership with Bayerische Hypotheken- und Wechselbank called Kärntner Kredit- und Wechsel-Bankgesellschaft Ehrfeld & Co. Initially, the bank only has corporate and business banking customers. Its first Head Office is in Klagenfurt. In the same year, the bank acquires branches in Villach and Spittal/Drau. Wolfsberg follows a year later.

1928	Years of effort to transform the limited partnership into a stock corporation lead to the formation of Bank für Kärnten (bank for Carinthia). Despite the global crisis, the bank`s development in the years that follow is slow but healthy and well balanced.

1964	The bank adds small personal loans to its range.

1939	The company’s name is changed from Bank für Kärnten to Bank für Kärnten Aktiengesellschaft.

1943	Creditanstalt-Bankverein contributes the branches it already has in Carinthia to Bank für Kärnten Aktiengesellschaft. In the post-war period, the bank plays a key role in economic reconstruction in the region it serves.

1964	The bank adds small personal loans to its range as a new line of business. In the years that follow, it gradually enlarges its branch network.

1965	The bank enters into its successful alliance with the Wüstenrot building and loan association.

1970	The first joint Drei-Banken (3 Banks) bond is issued in partnership with Bank für Oberösterreich und Salzburg and Bank für Tirol und Vorarlberg.

1983	A branch is opened in Graz and the bank expands across the Carinthian border under its new name Bank für Kärnten und Steiermark Aktiengesellschaft (BKS: Bank for Carinthia and Styria). Alpenländische Garantie-GmbH, Linz (ALGAR) is set up. This company safeguards BKS and its sister banks Bank für Oberösterreich und Salzburg and Bank für Tirol und Vorarlberg against any losses on big loans.

1986	The BKS ordinary share is launched in the Amtlicher Handel (official trading) segment on the Vienna Stock Exchange. At the time, BKS Bank’s share capital is divided into 3.0 million shares with a nominal value of öS100 each.

1988	BKS enters the leasing market and sets up insurer Drei-Banken Versicherungs-AG together with its sister banks.

1900	The first branch in Vienna opens.

1991	BKS and its sister banks set up IT subsidiary Drei-Banken-EDV GmbH. Construction of the new Head Office building at St. Veiter Ring 43 begins to plans by architect Wilhelm Holzbauer. It opens on schedule in November 1993.

1998	Conclusion of an extensive sales and cooperation agreement with the Generali Vienna Group covering the insurance and investment fund sectors. After the departure of our long-standing shareholder Bayerische Hypotheken- und Wechselbank, the Generali Group acquires roughly 7.44 per cent of BKS Bank’s ordinary shares. Our international expansion begins with the opening of a representative office in Zagreb and the acquisition of a leasing company in Ljubljana (now called BKS-leasing d.o.o.).

2000	BKS and its sister banks make their first high-publicity joint appearance as the 3 Banken Group.

2002	Formation of BKS-leasing Croatia d.o.o., which is based in Zagreb.

2003	Acquisition of a majority stake in Die Burgenländische Anlage & Kredit Bank AG (Die BAnK).

2004	The first banking branch in Slovenia opens, in Ljubljana.

2005	Die BAnK is merged into BKS. Representative offices are set up in Italy and Hungary. The company is renamed as BKS Bank AG.

2006	BKS acquires Kvarner banka d.d., Rijeka, and commences banking operations in Croatia.

2007	A representative office is set up in Bratislava and BKS acquires KOFIS Leasing in Slovakia. It is assimilated into the BKS Bank Group and renamed as BKS-Leasing a.s.
2008	Kvarner Banka d.d. is renamed as BKS Bank d.d. and a branch is opened in Zagreb.

2009	A six-for-one split of BKS Bank shares takes place and the company’s issued share capital increases to €65.52 million in the course of a raising of share capital. Since then, its share capital has been represented by 30,960,000 ordinary no-par shares and 1,800,000 no-par preference shares.

2010	Securities operations begin in Slovenia and retail banking operations in Croatia are expanded.