[3] The expanded home market includes Austria, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, Serbia and Slovenia.

[4][5] Steiermärkische Sparkasse is the largest regional Sparkasse in Austria and an important part of the Austrian Sparkassen Gruppe, which consists of 46 Sparkassen with Erste Group Bank and Erste Bank Österreich as leading institutions.

[6] Steiermärkische Sparkasse was founded in 1825 as Vereinssparkasse (Steyermärkische Spar-Casse) and is thus the oldest financial institution in Styria.

The actual founder of the Steiermärkische Sparkasse was the Emperor's personal representative and Governor in Styria: Franz von Hartig.

Since 1823 he had been a member of the Association of the First Austrian Spar-Casse with direct insight into the beginnings of the Sparkassen system in Austria.