Raiffeisen Centrobank AG is one of the leading Austrian investment banks, offering the entire spectrum of services and products associated with stock, derivatives, and equity capital transactions, including and excluding the stock exchange. Based on this position, the specialized bank also offers exclusive, individual Private Banking. Raiffeisen Centrobank particularly concentrates on the CEE markets and is continuously expanding its activities in the region. With the support of the sole shareholder, the Raiffeisen Bank International AG, and in consideration of the 30 years of in-house expertise and know-how, Raiffeisen Centrobank is able to offer to its customers comprehensive and competent consulting and individual solutions pertaining to the securities business, all capital market activities, and complex international financing tasks. Raiffeisen Centrobank is not provided with an own rating but would advert to the excellent rating of the parent company. The following business segments are the bank's core areas: Securities Trading and Sales Company Research Equity Capital Markets (Capital Market Financings) Mergers & Acquisitions (Fusion and Takeover Consulting) Private Banking Core Areas of the Bank Securities Trading and Sales will continue to be the center of the activities of Raiffeisen Centrobank with focus on customer care for domestic and international institutional customers. Raiffeisen Centrobank is one of the largest securities houses on the Austrian capital market and is a member of Wiener Börse AG (ÖTOB, XETRA), Deutsche Börse AG (XETRA), EUREX, EUWAX, BSE (Budapest Stock Exchange), WSE (Warsaw Stock Exchange), London IOB, Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) and Ljubljana Stock Exchange (LJSE). A global data and information network, a high degree of professional competency, and state of the art technical support assures that our customers receive professional services and consulting pertaining to their business and transactions with warrants, bond, certificates, guaranteed bonds, and other derivative products. Our competencies also cover various tasks in the area of asset management and Private Banking. The area of Company Research focuses on issuing analysis and primary sector analysis with a concentration on Austrian companies on the Vienna, Frankfurt, and Zurich stock exchanges. Starting point is an industry-oriented approach used to manage selected stock in the German-speaking regions as well as companies from Central and Eastern European markets. This analytical expertise supports the sales activities of traditional securities business as well as the core segments Equity Capital Markets and Mergers & Acquisitions. Experienced specialists offer in-depth services and a comprehensive product range in all of these areas – from IPOs and capital increases (Initial Public Offerings/and Secondary Public Offerings) up to consulting of governmental and supranational organizations involved in privatizing state-run enterprises. In the area of Mergers & Acquisitions, the know-how of our subsidiary Raiffeisen Investment AG plays an especially important role, e.g. with privatizing tasks in Central and Eastern Europe. Additional Activities Additionally, we are also offering services rich in tradition for our house such as international financing and Foreign Currency Trade. Our institute also has a special status because it not only has a banking license but also because it is licensed as an investment banking house, which allows us to offer our customers a broad product range and combined services. Our banking activities are supplemented by a highly trained and specialized Countertrade Department (industrial offset, counterpurchase, and buy-back business). Various subsidiaries – originally founded to support our countertrade activities – handle numerous products in the commodity sector. Among these commodities is natural and synthetic rubber, Revertex (evaporated natural latex) as well as natural and synthetic latex in Frankfurt, Singapore, and Virginia Beach as well as chemicals in Zug (Switzerland). These subsidiaries are operated by an independent holding company (Centrotrade Holding AG).