“We are pleased with BCR, with the job the employees did, the results are very good.”

Spalt, who took the reins of Erste, the largest banking group in Central and Eastern Europe, at the beginning of this year, said that Erste remained committed to Romania and the Romanian market, despite the turmoil in the past ten years.

Market share is not the main indicator Erste looks at and focuses on, but how it can better finance the economy so customers in Romania could prosper, Bernhard Spalt said.

(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)