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Wiener Privatbank’s H1-2025 release signals stability and improving trendlines after a difficult 2024: CET1 26.51% (↑ from 22.46% YE-2024), AUM ~€1.433bn (flat), LCR ~1,480%, sharply lower risk costs (€0.68m vs. €7.36m), and a much better EPS (-€0.13) despite a moderately negative IFRS group result. Management guides to a “clear improvement vs. 2024,” aided by a tentative upturn in Austrian real estate and expansion in CEE/CIS private banking.
Alpha Bulgaria AD (“Alpha Bulgaria”, ALFB) is a Sofia-based public investment company listed on the Bulgarian Stock Exchange. The group positions itself as a fast-growing holding with a rapidly upsized share capital and a portfolio that includes the alternative investment fund Alpha Fund AD, a sub-10% exposure to Wiener Privatbank SE (Vienna), and an $8 million offshore investment in Canal Bank SA, Panama.