ČSOB

  • one of the largest banks on the slovak banking market

  • the part of ČSOB Financial group with wide range of products and services

  • belongs to the KBC Group

ČSOB is a leading Slovak bank with more than 50 years of presence. Its name is an abbreviation of the official name „Československá obchodná banka“, which dates back to the times of the former Czechoslovakia. In 1964, the state participated in the establishment of ČSOB through its majority shareholder – Štátna banka Československá. In the then Czechoslovakia, ČSOB was the only bank that provided foreign trade financing and supervised foreign currency loans from international markets. After the Velvet Revolution in 1989, ČSOB started to provide its services not only to the then foreign trade companies, but also to newly emerging businesses and individuals. The product expansion was accompanied by an icrease in the number of points of sale/branches.

ČSOB. Pre vás osobne.

In 1999, a number of banking houses in the then Czechoslo¬vakia were privatised and KBC Bank, a Belgian bank belonging to the KBC Group, one of the largest and most powerful financial groups in Europe, became a shareholder of ČSOB.

In order to increase the market share of ČSOB in Slovakia, in 2009 the shareholder bought the then Istrobanka, which in Slovakia belonged to the Austrian group BAWAG P.S.K. Eleven years later, in 2020, the shareholder KBC Group again with the same objective also bought the then OTP Banka Slovensko, a Slovak member of the Hungarian banking group OTP Group.

Today, ČSOB is one of the largest Slovak banks and, thanks to the other members of the ČSOB Financial Group, provides a wide portfolio of products and services to retail clients, SMEs, the corporate segment, and private clients. Its portfolio of products and services includes mortgages, current accounts, consumer loans, savings and investment products, electronic banking, socially responsible funds, securities management and custody, life and non-life insurance products, as well as leasing products and professional consulting.

ČSOB - Board of Directors

Daniel Kollár

Chairman of the Board of Directors and CEO

Daniel Kollár is CEO and chairman of the Board of Directors of ČSOB since it became legally independent in 2008. However, he had been the top manager of the then existing ČSOB Banka Slovensko since 2004. Daniel manages the entire ČSOB Financial Group too. In 1997, Daniel was one of the founders of ČSOB Leasing in Slovakia and from 2000 was the head of the company. He graduated from the Slovak University of Technology and the University of Economics in Bratislava.

Juraj Ebringer

Member of the Board of Directors, Retail Banking

Juraj Ebringer came to ČSOB from ČSOB Leasing, where he held several positions from 1999, the last as chairman of the board of directors and CEO. Juraj has experience from Komerční banka as well, where he was employed from 1997 to 1999. He graduated from the University of Economics in Bratislava.

Branislav Straka

Member of the Board of Directors, Banking Products, Pro¬cesses and Innovations

Branislav Straka has been employed at ČSOB since 2006. Before that, he was a member of the board of directors at HVB Bank Slovakia and CEO of Cardif Slovakia insurance company. He graduated from the Slovak University of Technology and the University of Economics in Bratislava.

Ľuboš Ondrejko

Member of the Board of Directors, Corporate and Private Banking

Ľuboš Ondrejko has been working at ČSOB since 2005 as a manager of corporate and SME banking. He came to ČSOB from VÚB in which he held the position of the director of debt management section from 1999; later he held the same position in the section of corporate clients funding, and from 2002 he held the position of the director of the section of small and medium sized enterprises. He has been active in the banking sector since 1997. He graduated from the Faculty of Law at the Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice.

Marek Loula

Member of the Board of Directors, Financial Management, data and IT

Marek Loula came to the Slovak ČSOB from the affiliate ČSOB Bank in the Czech Republic where he was a top manager of corporate and institutional banking. As a member of the Board of Directors at ČSOB, he is responsible for financial management, data and IT. He graduated from Masaryk University in Brno and his entire professional career has been linked to the ČSOB brand and its parent company KBC, which is why he has long-term experience in many areas of the banking sector.