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| Type | Joint-stock company |
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| Industry | Financial service activities, except insurance and pension funding  |
| Founded | 1 July 1869 [1] |
| Headquarters | Linz, Upper Austria, Austria [1] |
| Total assets | €22,216 million (2018) [2] |
Number of employees | 2,101 (2017) [1] |
| Website | www |
Oberbank AG is a regional bank based in Linz and belongs to the 3-Banken-Gruppe.
The bank developed in the course of the 17th century from the trading business of the long-established Linz ship master family Scheibenpogen. Therefore, the bank has been in existence since about 1650. In the 19th century it went to the Eidam (son-in-law) of the former mayor of Linz, Johann Michael Scheibenpogen (II), Josef Planck, and was called J. M. Scheibenpogens Eidam. Josef Planck's 1844 descendants, Planck von Planckburg, transformed the private bank into a public limited company in 1869, the "Bank für Oberösterreich und Salzburg".
In the 1930s the three regional banks Bank für Oberösterreich und Salzburg (now Oberbank), Bank für Kärnten AG (now BKS Bank AG) and Bank für Tirol und Vorarlberg Aktiengesellschaft (BTV) were taken over by Creditanstalt (CA) in Vienna. In 1933, CA acquired a majority stake in Oberbank by issuing new shares.
In 1952, one third each of CA's shares were transferred to the three banks Oberbank, Bank für Kärnten und Steiermark and Bank für Tirol und Vorarlberg. Due to their common history and similar corporate cultures, the originally capital-based interdependence of Oberbank, BKS and BTV has developed into a close and particularly friendly cooperation that has been expressed since 1997 in a joint appearance as the 3-Banken-Gruppe.
The IPO of Oberbank, BKS and BTV on 1 July 1986 was the most important step towards securing independence. A large number of shareholders were a prerequisite for the banks to be able to permanently detach themselves from CA's influence and pursue an independent strategy. [3]
Current shareholder structure by voting rights as of 31 December 2016: [4]
Even in the difficult years of 2008 and 2009, the Oberbank was less affected than other institutions by the financial crisis from 2007 and did not have to make use of state aid during this period. In 2018, the Bank achieved its ninth record result in a row. [5]
Basic data (as of December 31, 2018, compared to 2017) [5] [2]
For the year 2019, the Bank expects "credit growth and investment income to probably weaken" and the credit risk to "probably move towards normalization". [5]
The freedom of establishment for banks granted in the 1970s allowed the Oberbank to extend its catchment area outside its original region of Upper Austria/Salzburg. Since 1985, the Oberbank has had its own branches in Upper Austria, Salzburg, Lower Austria, Vienna, Burgenland and Bad Aussee in the Styrian Salzkammergut region. The Oberbank has also been active in Bavaria since 1990, in the Czech Republic since 2004 and in Hungary [6] since 2007. In 2009, the bank entered the Slovakian market, and in 2015 the first Hessian branch was opened in Darmstadt and Erfurt in Thuringia. Additional branches were to be opened in Baden-Württemberg in 2015. [7]
In 2007, the Oberbank was awarded the title "best institution" in the Format Bank Test. [8]
In 2009, [9] 2010, [10] 2014 [11] and 2016, [12] the Oberbank was awarded the Recommender Award of the Finanz-Marketing Verbandes Österreich (FMVÖ). The awards show that the Oberbank was particularly often recommended by its own customers.
In 2011, the Oberbank was awarded the three-year basic certificate berufundfamilie audit, which was extended for a further three years in September 2014. [13] This audit is awarded to companies that offer measures to improve the work-life balance.
On 6 February 2013, the Oberbank was the only bank in Upper Austria to be awarded the BGF seal of approval 2013-2015. This seal of approval is awarded to companies that have implemented workplace health promotion in accordance with the criteria of the Austrian network "Workplace Health Promotion". The award of this seal of approval primarily honored the initiatives of the "Health Share" health project. [14] In 2016 the Oberbank was awarded the BGF seal of approval for the second time in a row. [15]
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