Private | |
Founded | 1990 |
Headquarters | Bucharest, Romania |
Key people
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Sergiu Manea, Chief Executive Officer, CEO Adriana Jankovicova, Financial Executive Vice President Dana Demetrian, Retail&Private Banking Executive Vice President Jonathan Charles Locke, Executive Vicepresident Risk Bernd Mittermair, WorkOut Executive Vice President Paul Ursaciuc, Executive Vicepresident Operating |
Products | Commercial banking, Investment banking, Private banking, |
Total assets | € 17 billion EUR (2012) |
Website |
www.bcr.ro www.bcr.md |
Banca Comercială Română (BCR) (SWIFT code: RNCBROBU), a member of Erste Group, is the most important financial group in Romania, including operations of universal bank (retail, corporate & investment banking, treasury and capital markets), as well as specialized companies on the leasing market, assets management, private pensions, housing banks and banking services through mobile phone. BCR is No. 1 bank in Romania on the assets value (over EUR 16 billion), No. 1 Bank by number of clients and No. 1 bank by savings and financing segments.
BCR offers a range of products and financial services through a network of 48 business centres for companies and 643 retail units located in major cities across the country with over 10.000 inhabitants. BCR is No. 1 bank in Romania on the cards market and bank transactions, BCR clients having available the biggest national network of ATMs – over 2.400 ATMs and POSs – over 15.000 card payment terminals to merchants, as well as full service internet banking, phone-banking and e-commerce.
Over time, BCR has brought several innovations on the Romanian banking market, such as:
o first transaction at an ATM in Romania
o BCR is the first bank in Romania to trade securities on the secondary market
o BCR is the first banking institution in Romania to launch a national network of specialized offices – “EU Office BCR” – dedicated exclusively to European funds
BCR is part of the BCR Group that also includes BCR Banca pentru Locuințe, BCR Pensii, Societate de Administrare a Fondurilor de Pensii Private S.A., BCR Leasing and good.bee Service RO
BCR Banca pentru Locuințe (BCR BpL) is the BCR Group subsidiary specializing in saving and lending for housing purposes under a collective system, launched in July 2008. In 2009, it signed 134,000 contracts, worth RON 3.5 billion.
BCR BpL is the undisputed market leader in terms of total stock (over 50%) and of new business (over 75%)
BCR Pensii, Societate de Administrare a Fondurilor de Pensii Private S.A. was established in June 2007, with an initial share capital of RON 50,000,000.
BCR PENSII Societate de Administrare a Fondurilor de Pensii Private S.A. was established in June 2007, with an initial share capital of RON 50,000,000.
BCR PENSII has been highly dynamic on the Romanian private pension market, helping the company consolidate its position on the market. In 2009, BCR PENSII finalized the take over of Omniforte – Privately Managed Pension Fund operating on the mandatory pension market and also entered the optional pension market by taking over BCR PRUDENT, the Optional Pension Fund and finalized the take over of mandatory pension funds Prima Pensie and OTP at the beginning of 2010.
BCR owns 99.99% of the shares of BCR Pensii, Societate de Administrare a Fondurilor de Pensii Private S.A.