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Corporate Customers:<br />

For six years, RLB NÖ-Wien has applied a successful model<br />

in providing its corporate customers with comprehensive<br />

advisory services called Mehr[Wert]Beratung or ‘Value Added<br />

Consulting’. This model successfully contributes to <strong>the</strong> strategic<br />

development of a large number of corporate clients in<br />

2011. The business community values our costumer advisors.<br />

This shows our stable demand <strong>for</strong> credit from RLB NÖ-Wien.<br />

As a result, RLB NÖ-Wien’s corporate loan portfolio grew by<br />

approximately 3 percent in 2011.<br />

Since 2000 RLB NÖ-Wien has been working consistently<br />

to support <strong>the</strong> development of renewable energy<br />

into a strategic business unit in <strong>the</strong> corporate client<br />

segment. RLB NÖ-Wien has financed a host of wind<br />

power and photovoltaic projects in both <strong>the</strong> Centrope<br />

region and Germany.<br />

Financial Markets:<br />

Customer confidence is maintained by RLB NÖ-Wien’s careful<br />

market research, focused on a key number of products,<br />

markets and customer and demand orientated sales activities.<br />

RLB NÖ-Wien sold approximately €1 billion of its own<br />

securities during 2011. The total of outstanding RLB NÖ-Wien<br />

bonds issued increased by 5.25 percent or €243 million to<br />

€4.9 billion. At <strong>the</strong> same time, savings deposit balances grew<br />

well above <strong>the</strong> market average, increasing by 13.5 percent or<br />

€306 million to €2.6 billion.<br />

Recently, RLB NÖ-Wien’s strength was reaffirmed by Moody’s,<br />

which confirmed its top A1 rating (long-term rating: A1; shortterm<br />

rating: P-1; financial strength rating: C-). This is <strong>the</strong> very<br />

best rating that any Austrian bank has currently, creating a<br />

solid basis <strong>for</strong> continued cooperation with RLB NÖ-Wien’s<br />

partner banks and correspondent banks in o<strong>the</strong>r countries.<br />

Risk Management and Organization:<br />

As a service provider, RLB NÖ-Wien strives to offer its customers<br />

<strong>the</strong> best possible products, services and advice. To achieve<br />

this, its risk management relies on active, stable and seamless<br />

processes. Thanks to our business model as a ‘universal<br />

bank’ with a high level of commitment to <strong>the</strong> customer, RLB<br />

NÖ-Wien is well prepared to meet <strong>the</strong> challenges of <strong>the</strong> future<br />

and <strong>the</strong> regulations that will be introduced by Basel III.<br />

The European Banking Association (EBA) will require systemic<br />

banks to have a minimum 9 percent core Tier 1 capital<br />

ratio by <strong>the</strong> middle of 2012. Although it is not an EBA-requirement,<br />

RLB NÖ-Wien already had a Tier 1 ratio of 9.4 percent<br />

at <strong>the</strong> end of 2011.

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