The majority of large companies' managers expect the Hungarian currency, the forint to weaken further until the summer, with almost all of them adversely affected by the exchange rate change, K&H Bank told the state news agency MTI on Thursday. According to their survey, 65% of respondents expect a weaker forint in the next six […]

Erste Bank Hungary has successfully integrated the clients and activities of Commerzbank's Hungarian subsidiary into its corporate business. With the technical closing of the acquisition, Erste Bank became Hungary's fifth largest corporate lender, with a market share exceeding 10 percent. The customers of Commerzbank's Hungarian subsidiary, Commerzbank Plc., joined Erste Bank Hungary Zrt. smoothly, according […]

Hungary’s OTP Bank signed a purchase and sale contract on the privatization of Ipoteka Bank in Uzbekistan this Monday. According to the contract, OTP Bank will purchase 100% of the shares held by the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Uzbekistan (nearly 97% shareholding) in two steps: 75% of the shares now and the […]

Erste Bank's profit after tax for the first nine months of this year was 59.2% lower than last year at HUF 18.3 billion, while lending continued to grow, CEO Jelasity Radovan said at a press conference in Budapest on Wednesday. He added that the rise in costs and public charges, as well as accounting settlements […]

At its meeting on August 30, 2022, the Monetary Council of the National Bank of Hungary (MNB) reviewed the latest economic and financial developments and decided on raising the central bank base rate by 100 basis points to 11.75% - the highest in 18 years - with effect from August 31, 2022. This means that […]

OTP Group achieved a better-than-expected consolidated adjusted profit after tax of HUF 162.128 billion in the second quarter, which was 83% higher than in the previous quarter and 26% higher than a year earlier. The analyst consensus for a quarterly consolidated adjusted profit after tax was HUF 136.541 billion, which implied a year-on-year increase of […]

CIB Bank, the Hungarian subsidiary of the several-centuries-old Italian international banking group Intesa Sanpaolo, offers tailor-made solutions and a state-of-the-art digital service portfolio to its clients all over Hungary. As the Chairman and CEO at CIB Bank, Pál Simák notes to Diplomacy&Trade, “centuries of successful operations are only achievable if you stick to universal values […]

OTP Bank is preparing a three-year green bond issue in euro, Global Capital reported. According to the portal, investors were sounded out on Wednesday and Thursday, and the bond is expected to be issued early next week. According to the plans, the bond would not be callable in the first two years of its maturity, […]

In 2021, the digital transformation of the financial sector gained new momentum both at international and domestic level. That is according to the National Bank of Hungary (MNB) in its FinTech and Digitalisation Report on the global and Hungarian FinTech ecosystem and the digital maturity of the domestic banking and insurance sector published for the […]

The Financial Stability Council of the National Bank of Hungary (MNB) has discussed and approved the 2022 Payment Systems Report. The Council found that payment service developments in 2021 returned to pre-pandemic trends, bringing about dynamic development in terms of the further spread of electronic payments. The development of the electronic payment infrastructure in Hungary […]

According to the responses to the Lending Survey conducted by the National Bank of Hungary (MNB), credit conditions and credit demand were broadly unchanged in the corporate credit market in the first quarter of 2022. Looking ahead, around a quarter of the banks plan to tighten lending conditions due to the economic prospects that are […]

The European Investment Bank (EIB), the bank of the European Union, and the National Bank of Hungary (Magyar Nemzeti Bank - MNB), the Hungarian central bank, have signed an agreement to enable the EIB to support the Hungarian economy with more long-term green loans. The operation creates a new source of more affordable financing for […]

Erste Bank Hungary posted a negative result after tax in the first quarter. One of the main reasons for this is that the National Deposit Insurance Fund ordered an extra payment of HUF 7.9 billion due to the liquidation of Sberbank. Erste closed the first quarter with a minus of HUF 908 million, the bank's […]

The European Investment Bank Group, consisting of the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the European Investment Fund (EIF), increased its investments in Hungary in 2021 and provided EUR 891 million to the local economy, a record volume of investment in the past five years. The EIB increased the volume of its operations in Hungary for […]

"OTP Group is supporting Ukraine using all means available to us. We are working under wartime conditions to keep the country's financial infrastructure, and thereby the economy as a whole, operational," the Group said in a statement this Friday. In addition to maintaining the operations of the Group's subsidiary in Ukraine, "we are contributing to […]