OTP closed the most successful year in its history in 2024, the bank achieved outstanding profitability, its capital position is extremely stable, and it is the market leader in the region, the bank's CEO, Sándor Csányi said at the annual general meeting of the company in Budapest on Friday. He stated that OTP had acquired […]
According to preliminary data, 5,885 children were born and 11,198 people died in March 2025, the Central Statistical Office (KSH) reports). The number of births lessened by 8.9%, that of marriages by 2.0%, while that of deaths increased by 4.9% compared to the same month of the previous year. In March 2025:A total of 5,885 […]
Job seekers in Hungary are showing increased interest in new opportunities even as employers remain cautious with their hiring plans, according to the latest quarterly report from Profession.hu, the country's leading job portal. While job advertisements decreased by 1% in the first quarter of 2025 compared to the same period last year, applications jumped by […]
MBH Bank held its Annual General Meeting, at which shareholders approved the individual and consolidated financial statements of the bank prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards, as applicable for 2024 and voted on the other items on the agenda, the bank has announced. The report says the company's year 2024 was in line […]
The National Bank of Hungary (MNB) said in a report published on Thursday that the commercial real estate market may be on the verge of recovery, having moved from a multi-year low in both domestic and regional data last year. Speaking at a press conference in Budapest on the state of the commercial real estate […]
Despite geopolitical tensions, weak global growth and changes in the regulatory environment, the Mol Group closed the 2024 financial year with a stable result, meeting its financial targets, the Group's CEO, Zsolt Hernádi said at the company's annual general meeting in Budapest on Thursday. Zsolt Hernádi noted that despite the decline in the financial result, […]
The Hungarian air navigation service provider, HungaroControl Plc., reported on Thursday that traffic in Hungary's airspace increased significantly over the Easter period compared to the same period last year, the service provider told MTI. The Easter long weekend is a special period in air traffic, when the traffic in Hungarian airspace usually exceeds the average […]
Robert Palladino, the Chargé d'Affaires of the United States Embassy in the Hungarian capital, paid an introductory visit to the City Hall, Budapest Mayor Gergely Karácsony said on his Facebook page on Wednesday. MTI quotes the mayor’s notes that he had a substantive and good-humored conversation with the diplomat. During the meeting, the deepening of […]
The logistics center of Ghibli Ltd. was inaugurated on Wednesday in the southern industrial zone of Debrecen, E Hungary. Together with this new 22,000-square-meter hall, the company has more than 120,000 square meters of warehouse capacity at seven locations in the country, the company's managing director, Zoltán Szabó, said at the inauguration. He added that […]
In 53% of the job advertisements posted since January last year, employers expect some language skills, while in the case of intellectual jobs the proportion is even higher, at 68%, Profession.hu reported on Tuesday with MTI, based on its recent analysis. According to the job portal's survey, companies still expect English to be the language […]
The National Bank of Hungary (MNB) continues its successful series of collector coins featuring Hungarian national parks. In honor of the Aggtelek National Park, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, the Bank has issued a silver collector coin with a face value of HUF 20,000 and its non-ferrous metal version with a face […]
Last year, 3,647 applications for the purchase of real estate in Hungary were submitted by foreign nationals from outside the European Union, which is 23% more than a year earlier; the last time similar activity was seen was before 2019, the real estate broker Duna House told MTI on Tuesday. According to Duna House's analysis, […]
Easter Monday, which is a holiday in Hungary, is a day of celebration of profane human joy, especially youth. Over the years, this day has become more and more about symbolic customs than about going to church, and sprinkling of girls by boys, which has changed a little, but still retains its roots. Folklore has […]
The financial situation of the Hungarian population is slowly improving, and with it the willingness to take out loans has also started to increase, according to data from a national survey commissioned by Provident Financial Ltd. Although demand for credit has fluctuated over the past few years, along with consumer confidence, both are currently on […]
Hungary's parliament has passed a constitutional amendment allowing the government to ban public LGBTQ+ events, including the annual Budapest Pride march. The amendment, approved on April 14 with a two-thirds majority by the ruling Fidesz-KDNP coalition, declares that children's rights to moral, physical, and spiritual development take precedence over other fundamental rights, including the right […]
