Schoiswohl, BCR: Team strengthening, key to boosting corporate funding by over 15%

BCR last year persuaded large companies of almost all industries to start working with the largest bank on the market with one or more products and services, and the success rests with the new team that has been forged in recent years in the corporate banking unit, states Wolfgang Schoiswohl, executive vice-president with BCR, in charge of large companies and SMEs.

"I am very proud we managed to boost corporate lending by 15% last year and the main factor was our having strengthened our team considerably in the past two years. (...)".

With a previous experience of around five years on the domestic market, on the same corporate area, Schoiswohl was recruited by Erste in the autumn of 2008. He got the mandate to strengthen the bank's position on the corporate segment, particularly on the segment of large companies. And in a bid to hit his targets, he continued to recruit specialised bankers from several banks with experience in the field and not only.

For 2011, Schoiswohl wants a new two-digit increase.