The EOS Board on the 2023/24 financial year: How business has developed in the regions, why sustainability remains a key focus area, and how EOS is optimally prepared for the future.
Commitment to strategy: Sustainability is becoming a success factor for financial companies. ESG experts at EOS are driving environmentally conscious and socially responsible action internationally.
Now for the third time, EOS was calling on its employees to take part in the innovation contest. The goal: promoting international collaboration and enhancing performance.
The central question in responsible debt collection is: How do we handle defaulting consumers? As EOS demonstrates, there is more than one good answer to this question.
Whether they are a bank, energy utility, telecoms or e-commerce firm, EOS helps businesses from a wide range of sectors to reliably plan ahead by purchasing their unsecured receivables.
Almost half of EOS national subsidiaries work with Kollecto+. The digital collection system is making great strides and offers customers and consumers alike many benefits.
In Poland and southeastern Europe, IFC (International Finance Corporation) and EOS apply strict ESG criteria covering social and environmental aspects when buying NPL portfolios.
“Programmed revolution”: The EOS Group is optimizing its digital receivables management with robotic process automation, freeing up staff for more complex and creative tasks.
Generative AI offers companies enormous potential. The Otto Group reduces these risks with its in-house ogGPT tool. The EOS Group also benefits from this.
Already, generative AI can handle a lot of typical tasks in financial services companies. EOS is testing how chatbots can reduce employee workload even more and improve their efficiency.
A survey reveals that generative AI like ChatGPT offers companies potential applications in numerous areas. In the area of risk and finance, it also harbors untapped potential.
The number of unusable properties is growing, partly as a result of increasing requirements for sustainability. EOS is developing new areas of expertise to bring stranded assets like these back onto the market.
In this interview, the members of the Board of the EOS Group talk about the positive developments in fiscal 2022/23, employees, diversity, and the responsibility of debt collection companies.
Using cutting-edge technology, EOS protects the data of customers and consumers from attacks by criminals. The new cyber-shield “Iron EOS” makes this an even faster and more efficient process.
A lack of financial education can accelerate the path to excessive personal debt, especially among young people. With its debt collection expertise, EOS supports financial literacy programs that aim to counter such developments.
Cross-border receivables present both logistical and legal challenges. Car rental company Hertz relies on the expertise of EOS for its international debt collection.
EOS is active in 180 countries with its own companies or selected partners. Banks that regularly sell cross-border debts to EOS also profit from this network.
The Hamburg Higher Regional Court has upheld an appeal brought by the Association of Consumer Centres against EOS Investment GmbH. EOS has lodged an appeal.
EOS receives the German Award for Sustainability Projects in recognition of the non-profit finlit foundation. Jury won over by the educational concept for handling money and debt.
Who saves more, who makes decisions more confidently, and who has greater financial reserves? An EOS study reveals how differently men and women handle financial issues – and suggests possible reasons.
EOS in France is planting trees to aid reforestation. Read here how the campaign is reinforcing employee awareness of climate protection and contributing to a more sustainable future.
How have rising prices affected the financial situation of consumers? An EOS study reveals that many people have had to take on debt to compensate for inflation.
Do you think young people have no desire to deal with their own finances? As a recent survey shows, this is certainly not the case. The level of interest is great – as are their fears for the future.
Record inflation and rising energy prices threaten the purchasing power of companies and their ability to invest: Here is how you can mitigate the effects.
The EOS Group is a leading technology-based investor in receivables portfolios and an expert in managing outstanding receivables. With over 50 years of experience and locations in more than 20 countries, EOS offers its clients worldwide smart services for receivables management. The focus is on banks and companies in the real estate, telecommunications, energy supply, and e-commerce sectors. Our work is based on a clear Code of Conduct. EOS employs more than 6,000 people and is part of the Otto Group. You can find more about our services in Germany here.
More than 6,000 employees in over 20 countries work for EOS.
The EOS Group invested EUR 583.5 million in receivables and real estate in 2023/24.
The revenue of the EOS Group for the fiscal year 2023/24 amounts to EUR 997.3 million.
In December 2023, the EOS Group received an ESG Risk Rating from the renowned rating agency Morningstar Sustainalytics. With a score of 9.9 (low risk), EOS ranks among the Top 3 in the "Consumer Finance" sector.
Learn more about our Corporate Responsibility (CR) strategy.
Very good results in challenging times: In its 50th anniversary year, the EOS Group looks back on a demanding and successful financial year 2023/24. All key figures, business highlights and exciting throwbacks to 50 years of EOS as well as achievements and highlights of the EOS Group's commitment to its social, societal and environmental responsibility can be found in this year's annual and sustainability report.
Knowing what moves the economy and society: That is our claim for the market and consumer studies of EOS. Our studies, which we produce together with renowned market research institutes, offer exciting facts about customer payment behavior, payment methods, digitalization and the benefits of data.
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