The first ever Euro-based share issuance on the Budapest Stock Exchange (BSE) has successfully been concluded. Through an initial public offering (IPO), Shopper Park Plus raised a total of 37.2 million Euros in capital, placing its shares into the BSE Premium Category, the stock exchange website reports. Shopper Park Plus manages a significant retail real […]

Erste Group Bank AG is buying back the 15 % share of its Hungarian subsidiary, Erste Bank Hungary Plc. (EBH), currently held by the Hungarian state-owned Corvinus International Investments Plc, EBH has announced on the website of the Budapest Stock Exchange. The transaction, which is set to close in November, values that stake at HUF […]

Poland's PKO Bank plans to open a representative office in Hungary and next year will start operations as a branch in Romania, the announcement of the CEO of the financial institution, Dariusz Szwed, has been quoted by the financial website portfolio.hu He stressed that the bank currently provides cross-border services on the Romanian market. He […]

The energy crisis and the resulting dramatic increase in energy prices have underscored the importance of energy efficiency over the past year, Deputy Governor of the National Bank of Hungary (MNB), Csaba Kandrács said this Thursday at MNB’s International Green Finance Conference. It featured presentations by representatives of the European Commission and the International Energy […]

Investors submitted offers worth HUF 27.5 billion in UniCredit Jelzálogbank Plc.'s third green mortgage bond issue, of which the bank accepted HUF 20 billion in the originally offered amount, almost half of which was subscribed by commercial banks, the company told MTI on Wednesday. According to the information, the bank's fixed-rate 5.5-year UCJBF 2029/A series […]

Pension funds continue to offer one of the most competitive schemes compared to other self-care offers, according to a recent summary by the National Bank of Hungary (MNB). The central bank said on Tuesday that the classical premium burden index, which retrospectively expresses the costs of voluntary pension funds, was 0.72% in 2022, up from […]

Assets under management in investment funds increased in Hungary by 3.2%, or HUF 382 billion, to HUF 12,296 billion in August, the Association of Investment Fund Managers and Asset Managers of Hungary (BAMOSZ) told MTI on Monday. The statement highlighted that the resulting capital flows in investment funds last month showed a plus of HUF […]

Despite the extra profit tax, interest rate freeze and credit market slowdown, the Hungarian banking sector made unprecedented profits in the first half of this year. The domestic profit of HUF 676 billion means that for the first time in a long time, the sector's profit on equity rose above 20%. On a non-consolidated basis, […]

According to preliminary financial accounts data, the net financing needs of the general government in Hungary amounted to HUF 697 billion in the second quarter, or 3.8% of GDP, compared with 11.4% in the previous quarter and 1.6% a year earlier, the National Bank of Hungary (MNB) said on Friday. In the year to the […]

The National Bank of Hungary (MNB) will increase the amount of euro liquidity offered on swap tenders, the central bank said on Wednesday. The tenders will be announced with a total amount of EUR six billion, instead of EUR five billion. As the financial website portfolio.hu notes, MNB is committed to achieving the inflation target […]

Assets under management in investment funds increased by five percent, or HUF 564 billion, to HUF 11,915 billion in July, the Association of Investment Fund Managers and Asset Managers of Hungary (Bamosz) told MTI on Monday. The statement highlighted that HUF 117.8 billion of capital left money market funds, while the assets of the category […]

The amount financed on the Hungarian leasing market totaled HUF 429.11 billion in the first half of the year, up 2% year-on-year, while the number of contracts decreased by 7%, the Hungarian Leasing Association informed MTI on Monday. The organization added in a statement that adjusted for last year's one-off HUF 50 billion real estate […]

OTP Group achieved consolidated adjusted profit after tax of HUF 283.940 billion in the second quarter, significantly better than analysts' expectations, exceeding the previous quarter by 52% and the year-earlier quarter by 75%, the financial institution reports. The analyst consensus was for a quarterly consolidated adjusted profit after tax of HUF 194.723 billion, which implied […]

Erste Bank Hungary's profit after tax, including one-off effects, amounted to HUF 46.7 billion in the first half of the year, compared to HUF 4.4 billion in the same period last year and HUF 31.7 billion in the first half of 2021, the CEO of Erste Bank Hungary, Jelasity Radovan said at a press conference […]

The role of financial planning has become more important for Hungarians, with more than half of them regularly keeping track of household income and expenditure, according to a representative survey conducted in May by Provident Pénzügyi Zrt.'s parent company International Personal Finance. As the summary sent to MTI on Monday points out, the survey measured […]