BCR boosts its share capital to more than 1 billion RON

The increase of the share capital is made by increasing the current face value of RON 1 per share to the new face value of RON 1.3 per share.

Accordingly, the shareholders approved the amendment of art.4 and art.39 of BCR S.A. Charter.

The shareholders also approved BCR financial statements and consolidated financial statements of BCR Group for the financial year ended on December 31, 2009, as well as the discharge from management accountability of the Supervisory Board members and Management Board members for the financial year 2009.

The shareholders re-elected the Supervisory Board members for a new 3 year mandate starting with April 22, 2010 - both the ones proposed by the majority shareholder and the ones proposed by the Financial Investment Companies (SIF).

Thus, BCR Supervisory Board has the following membership:

1. Andreas TREICHL - Chairman

2. Manfred WIMMER - Deputy Chairman

3. Herbert JURANEK - Member

4. Bernhard SPALT - Member

5. Florin POGONARU - Member

6. Mihai Fercala - Member

7. Tudor Ciurezu - Member

The shareholders have also approved all the other documents included on the agenda of the EGMS and OGMS.

BCR, a member of the Erste Group, is a universal bank dedicated to both retail and corporate customers. BCR is the leading banking organization in Romania, managing assets worth of more than EUR 16.4 billion. BCR is the most valuable Romanian financial services brand. The bank is offering a full range of banking services having 665 retail branches and agencies (for individuals and micro corporations) located in most of the Romanian cities with a population of more than 10,000 inhabitants. The corporate customers are serviced in 48 corporate commercial centres dedicated exclusively to SMEs and big companies. The bank provides to both retail and corporate customers a complex offer of banking products and services, including Internet banking, phone banking and e-commerce services. BCR issues 25 types of debit and credit card, and is the owner of the largest national ATM and POS network - over 2,000 machines and over 17.000 electronic terminals operational at the merchants, for card payments. BCR is currently the most important financial Group in Romania, with operations both in Romania and abroad developed by its local branches, foreign banking subsidiaries and representative offices. BCR is also holding top positions on the financial market segments for leasing, asset management, housing bank, equity and pension funds supported by its domestic subsidiaries.

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Erste Group is one of the leading financial providers in CEE. More than 50.000 employees serve 17.5 million clients in 3,200 branches in 8 countries (Austria, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Ukraine). As of 31 December 2009 Erste Group has reached EUR 201.7 billion in total assets, a net profit of EUR 903.4 million and cost-income-ratio of 50.2%.

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For more information about the products and services provided by BCR:

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For additional information:

BCR, Communication Division

Tel. 312.00.56; Fax 313 0117

Corneliu Cojocaru, e-mail: cornel.cojocaru@bcr.ro

Ionut Stanimir, e-mail: ionut.stanimir@bcr.ro