Austria's Erste, which now operates merely via its brokerage house in Poland, may adapt its strategy to gain a market foothold, as its CEO Andreas Treichl has told the Financial Times daily in an interview. "Poland is a special situation - it is a relatively large market with two dominant banks and then a wide array of banks with market shares of 3-5%," Treichl said adding that Erste usually wants to have 15-20% market share. "That is probably difficult to achieve so we have to adapt and see whether we can be competitive in a market like Poland with a smaller market share," Treichl admitted. He also noted that increasing competition in Poland could drive down profits. tom |
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