May 5 (Reuters) - Erste Group ERST.VI has acquired a 49% of Polish-based Santander Bank Polska SPL1.WA and 50% of Santander TFI, following an agreement with Spanish bank Banco Santander SA SAN.MC, the Austrian lender said on Monday.
The Vienna-based company will fund the acquisition exclusively from internal resources, it said, for a total of around 7.0 billion euros ($7.92 billion).
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(Reporting by Tristan Veyet in Gdansk, editing by Friederike Heine)
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