Mastercard Bank of the Year Grand Prize for OTP Bank

The Mastercard – Bank of the Year competition, which has become a key professional event in the domestic banking sector over the past two decades, was held for the twentieth time, with the top prize going to OTP Bank.

This year, the competition was revamped, with the organizers dividing the nine categories into three segments in which the winners delivering the most outstanding performance according to the professional jury's evaluation were as follows:

• OTP Bank in the Daily Banking segment,
• Gránit Bank in the Innovation segment,
• K&H Bank in the Beyond Banking segment.
  

The Mastercard - Bank of the Year 2025 grand prize was awared to OTP Bank.

"For twenty years now, the Mastercard - Bank of the Year competition has been one of the most important professional events in the Hungarian banking sector, focusing on recognizing and celebrating the performance of banks. The number and diversity of this year's entries indicated that professional interest in the program remains strong. The solutions submitted clearly showed that banks are shaping their services with a long-term perspective, focusing on innovation. The jury's decisions this year once again reflected that the solutions that stand out are those that transform technological possibilities into tangible value that is easily understood by customers," according to Gergely Márkus, Country Manager for Mastercard Hungary and Slovenia.

The 2025 competition placed greater emphasis on areas where there has been significant progress in the sector: customer retention, artificial intelligence and merchant partnerships.