RAIFFEISEN BANK – ‘’We Succeed Together‘’

Raiffeisen Bank S.A. is a top universal bank on the Romanian market. The Bank provides a complete range of high quality products and services to private individuals, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and large companies, via multiple distribution channels: banking outlets, ATM and EPOS networks, phone-banking (Raiffeisen Direct), mobile-banking (Smart Mobile) and internet banking (Raiffeisen Online).

Raiffeisen Bank services approximately 2 million individuals, 93,400 SMEs, and 5,600 medium and large companies. The bank’s network has more than 478 outlets, 1,100 ATMs, approximately 15,147 EPOS and 140 multifunctional machines.

Raiffeisen Bank Romania resulted from the merger, in June 2002, of the two banks held by Raiffeisen Group on the local market: Raiffeisenbank (Romania) S.A., established in 1998 as a subsidiary of RZB Austria, and Banca Agricol` Raiffeisen S.A., established in April 2001 after the take over of the Romanian state-owned Banca Agricol` by the Austrian group.

Raiffeisen Bank is a subsidiary of Raiffeisen Bank International AG (RBI), Vienna-based, one of the leading corporate and investment banks from Austria and a top universal bank in CEE. Raiffeisen Bank has various specialized units such as the ”retail agency” that services individuals and SMEs. Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen, the private banking trademark, provides bundle products covering different types of investments, in dedicated offices in the most important cities of the country, adding a personal distinction to the Bank’s high quality services – each top client has a personal banker.

On the corporate side, Raiffeisen Bank services companies, public entities and financial institutions. The corporate customers are also serviced through dedicated regional centres established in major cities, this way the customers receiving consultancy services and tailor-made products from their dedicated banking specialists throughout the entire country. Raiffeisen Bank is a major player on the cards market – it launched the first co-branded card, the first multifunctional chip credit card and offers a complete range of debit and credit cards, for companies and individuals, in local or foreign currency, for international or national use, type Visa or Mastercard.

This year, Raiffeisen marks 20 years on the Romanian market.

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