Erste Group Bank Ag S/Adr (EBKDY) Q1 2025 Earnings Call

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It's quarter 2025 results conference call of ERSI group. My name is Sergei and I will be your coordinator for today's event. Please note this call is being recorded and for the duration of the call your lines will be on a listen-only mode. However, you will have the opportunity to ask questions at the end of the call. This can be done by pressing star 1 on your telephone keypad to register your question. If you require assistance at any point, please press star 0 and you will be connected to an operator. I will now hand you over to your host, Thomas Sommerauer, to begin today's conference. Thank you. Thank you very much, Sergei, and good morning to everybody who is listening in from Vienna. Today's call will be hosted, as usual, by our... Management consisting of Peter Bossek, our Chief Executive Officer, Stefan Dörfler, our Chief Financial Officer, and Alexandra Habela-Trabek, our Chief Risk Officer. They will lead us through a brief presentation detailing the highlights of the first quarter of 2025. And after that, they are ready to take your questions. Before handing over to Peter, my usual reference to page two of the presentation which contains the disclaimer on forward-looking statements. And with this, Peter, I hand over to you. Thank you very much, Thomas. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome again to our first quarter 2025 conference call. I will kick off the presentation with a couple of comments on the main topic of interest over the past days, our discussion with Banco Santander about a potential acquisition of a 49% stake in Santander Bank Polska. First of all, the transaction is by no means certain. But should a deal eventually happen, I can only repeat what we have said all along, that any M&A transaction will have to pass a high hurdle, namely ...