Frequently asked questions

The Annual General Meeting of Raiffeisen Bank International AG will be held on Thursday, 4 April 2024 at 10:00 a.m. (CEST) at the Wiener Stadthalle, Hall F, Roland-Rainer-Platz 1, 1150 Vienna, Austria. The Annual General Meeting will be conducted as a "hybrid" assembly. Shareholders have the option of attending physically at the location of the GM, or virtually by participating remotely and voting remotely.

Yes, you must register in good time and provide evidence of your share in order to be entitled to attend the Annual General Meeting and to exercise your voting rights and other shareholder rights. Please contact your depositary bank in good time to ensure proper registration.

Unless the proxy authorization is submitted through the GM portal, it must be received by the Company at one of the addresses of the Company specified in the convocation notice no later than 2 April 2024, 04:00 p.m. (CEST).

If interested, it is possible to contact Mr. Michael Knap directly before the Annual General Meeting on the mobile phone number: +43 (0)664 2138740 or by e-mail: knap.rbi@computershare.de or Mr. Gernot Wilfling on the mobile phone number: +43 (0)660 2497747 or by e-mail: wilfling.rbi@computershare.de.

If an independent  proxy is granted authorization, the authorization, as described above, must also be sent to the Company or submitted through the GM portal. In each instance, instructions must be given to the special proxy for the exercise of the voting right. Without such explicit instructions, the voting right will not be exercised.

Unless the proxy authorization is submitted through the GM portal, it must be received by the Company at one of the addresses of the Company specified in the convocation notice no later than 2 April 2024, 04:00 p.m. (CEST).

A form for granting proxy authorization and one for revocation of proxy authorization will be sent upon request and are available on the Company’s website.

The right to participate in the Annual General Meeting and to exercise voting rights and other shareholder rights, which are to be exercised during the course of the Annual General Meeting depends on the ownership of shares at the end of the tenth day prior to the Annual General Meeting (record date). This record date is 25 March 2024, 12:00 a.m. (CET).

The General Meeting will be partially broadcast to the public on the Company’s website from approximately 10:00 a.m. (CEST) from the beginning until the end of the presentation of agenda item 1.

No, no questions addressed to the Annual General Meeting will be answered or published in advance.

Shareholders can submit their questions from the time the Annual General Meeting is convened until the third working day before the Annual General Meeting, i.e. March 29, 2024 12.00 a.m (CET), via email to fragen.rbi@computershare.de and from the record date also via the GM portal to the Company. The  questions submitted in this way will be read out and answered at the Annual General Meeting.

Shareholders who are participating virtually can exercise their right to information and to speak during the Annual General Meeting through the GM portal. They may also address the Annual General Meeting to ask questions and/or make a statement by means of an acoustic and optical two-way connection (supported by a webcam and microphone) in real time via video link. Each shareholder is also invited to send his/her questions directly to the Company during the Annual General Meeting by e-mail to fragen.rbi@computershare.de. Shareholders may use the question form available on the Company’s website.

Physically participating shareholders will be given a corresponding request-to-speak form at the Annual General Meeting. Questions may be asked until the chairman completes the question and answer process.

Every shareholder is entitled to submit motions at the Annual General Meeting for each item on the agenda (sec. 119 Stock Corporation Act). Shareholders can submit their countermotion from the time the Annual General Meeting is convened until the third working day before the Annual General Meeting, i.e. March 29, 2024 12.00 a.m (CET), via email to antrag.rbi@computershare.de and from the record date also via the GM portal to the Company. The countermotions submitted in this way will be read out at the Annual General Meeting. Shareholders who are participating virtually can exercise their right to submit motions via the GM portal. The point in time up to which it is possible to submit a motion via the GM portal will be determined by the Chairman during the virtual Annual General Meeting and announced in good time.

Shareholders whose shares equal individually or in aggregate 1% of the share capital of the Company may submit to the Company proposals for resolutions in respect of each agenda item together with a statement specifying the reasons for the proposal and request that these proposals be made available on the Company’s website (as recorded in the commercial register) together with the names of the respective shareholders, the accompanying statements of reasons for the proposals and any statements issued by the Management Board or Supervisory Board, provided that this request is made in text form and received by the Company no later than 25 March 2024 either by fax to +49 89 30903 74675, by e-mail to antrag.rbi@computershare.de or by mail or courier service to Raiffeisen Bank International AG, Attn. Elisabeth Klinger – Group Investor Relations, Am Stadtpark 9, 1030 Vienna, Austria. Each resolution proposal must (also) be submitted in a German language version.

The Annual General Meeting will be held in German. We offer simultaneous translation from German into English. Sign-language interpreters will also be available for the entire duration of the Annual General Meeting.

All important dates can be found here: RBI Financial Calendar