Erste Group clears offer for Santander Bank Polska stock

Published on 10/27/2026 at 11:35 | Editorial responsibility: Rafael Müller, Editor-in-Chief AD HOC NEWS

KNF clears a 1.00 to 26.00 percent offer for Santander Bank Polska stock on October 23, 2026. Results are due October 30, 2026.

Ownership and reporting dates

Erste Group received clearance to seek 1.00 to 26.00 percent of the bank on October 23, 2026.
The bank has 102,189,314 bearer shares according to its investor-relations page.
Santander Bank Polska stock traded at EUR 173.05 at 11:32 a.m. CET at Lang & Schwarz on October 27, 2026.

Santander Bank Polska, PLBZ00000044, Illustration mit AI erstellt.

Santander Bank Polska (ISIN PLBZ00000044) stock was trading at EUR 173.05 at Lang & Schwarz on October 27, 2026 at 11:32 a.m. CET. On October 23, 2026, Poland's Financial Supervision Authority cleared Erste Group to seek a majority stake in the bank, according to XYZ.

Offer clears a 50 percent threshold

Erste Group already held 49.00 percent of the bank when the regulator approved a purchase large enough to take its holding above 50.00 percent. The planned offer covers 1.00 to 26.00 percent of the shares and cannot take Erste Group above 75.00 percent because at least 25.00 percent must remain in free float, XYZ reported on October 23, 2026.

The offer price is approximately PLN 713.60 per share, while the source cited a previous Warsaw close of PLN 740.40. Those figures frame the transaction as an ownership event rather than a simple earnings catalyst, with the final acceptance and settlement process still central to the investment case.

What does the offer mean for ownership?

The bank's investor-relations page lists share capital of PLN 1,021,893 thousand divided into 102,189,314 bearer shares. It also identifies the securities as quoted on the WSE and presents the current issuer name as Erste Bank Polska, with Santander Bank Polska shown as the former name.

The change follows Erste Group's acquisition of a 49.00 percent stake on January 9, 2026, for EUR 7.035 billion, while the renaming was approved in January 2026, according to XYZ. For investors, the key comparison is between the proposed PLN 713.60 consideration and the bank's market quotation in Warsaw.

Results are due October 30

Erste Bank Polska is scheduled to publish third-quarter 2026 results on October 30, 2026. The date appears in a recent results calendar summarized by Bankier.pl. That report places Erste Bank Polska at the end of the week's Polish bank reporting schedule, making the upcoming release the next quantified test of the business after the ownership transition.

Stock trades at a dated market level

The euro quotation gives German investors a current reference point, while the planned offer remains denominated in PLN and applies to the Warsaw-listed shares. The two markets therefore provide different lenses on the same ownership process.

Santander Bank Polska stock was trading at EUR 173.05 at Lang & Schwarz on October 27, 2026 at 11:32 a.m. CET. The further course of trading is shown by the continuously updated real-time quote of Santander Bank Polska stock.