The merger will create Slovakia’s second-largest bank by client numbers, while preserving both brands until the integration of 365.bank customers into ČSOB’s systems is completed.

Brussels-based Belgian bank-insurance group KBC said 365.bank and ČSOB will legally merge on 1 November, following KBC’s acquisition of 365.bank earlier this year. All 365.bank customers, including those from the former Poštová banka portfolio Under the merger, all activities of 365.bank will be transferred to ČSOB and 365.bank will cease to exist as a separate legal entity. According to the group, customers will not be required to take any action and there will be no imm