Press release (20260410 Press release NLB Announcement en 1)

VIENNA, 10 April 2026

Announcement of NLB of its Intention to Launch a Voluntary Public Takeover Offer for Addiko

Vienna, 10 April 2026 - Addiko Bank AG ("Addiko") notes the announcement of Nova Ljubljanska banka d.d.'s ("NLB") intention to launch a voluntary public takeover offer aimed to acquire control over Addiko, directed at all Addiko shareholders.

Addiko was informed of NLB's intention to make an offer on the date of publication of the offer intention and had not engaged recently in discussions with NLB regarding its intention to announce a takeover offer.

Addiko will proceed in line with the obligations of the Austrian Takeover Code, including making a statement after publication of the offer document by NLB.

Vanja Vaniček

Managing Director, Group Marketing and Corporate Communications vanja.vanicek@addiko.com

Addiko Group is a specialist banking group focusing on providing banking products and services to Consumer and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SME) in Central and South-Eastern Europe (CSEE). The Group consists of Addiko Bank AG, the fully-licensed Austrian parent bank registered in Vienna, Austria, listed on the Vienna Stock Exchange and supervised by the Austrian Financial Market Authority and the European Central Bank, as well as six subsidiary banks, registered, licensed and operating in five CSEE countries: Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia & Herzegovina (where it operates via two banks), Serbia and Montenegro. Through its six subsidiary banks, Addiko Group services as of 31 December 2025 approximately 0.9 million customers in CSEE using a well-dispersed network of 154 branches and modern digital banking channels.

Based on its strategy, Addiko Group has repositioned itself as a specialist Consumer and SME banking group with a focus on growing its Consumer and SME lending activities as well as payment services (its "focus areas"). It offers unsecured personal loan products for Consumers and working capital loans for its SME customers and is largely funded by retail deposits.