IT Solutions Austria and Erste Group IT International will be merged and operate as Erste Digital as of July 1, 2021. Over 2,000 employees from 49 nationalities will work for Erste Digital in company offices in Vienna and Bratislava.
Erste Digital is responsible for developing, implementing and running the IT solutions used by Erste Group’s over 16 million customers. The core customer-facing business solutions that Erste Digital enables span across the retail, SME, and corporates & markets segments and include George, the digital financial companion used by more than 6.5 million people.
Besides headquarters in Vienna and Bratislava, Erste Digital also has offices in Innsbruck and Prague.
“Digital culture for me is how technology shapes the way that we interact as humans. It’s how we behave, how we think and how we communicate. By uniting our group’s IT skills and expertise, Erste Digital will contribute to keeping Erste Group at the very forefront of digital banking,” said Dietmar Böckmann, CEO of Erste Digital.
Erste group operates in seven CEE markets – Austria, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Hungary, Croatia, and Serbia.