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ОТР Bank – a new name in Ukraine. OTP Bank Plc. was created in Hungary in 1949 as a state savings and commercial bank. After privatization, which began in 1995, the state part in the bank capital decreased to one exclusive ("gold") action. At present 85.9 % of the bank actions are property of foreign investors - physical and juridical persons.

OTP Bank Plc. (Hungary) – is a universal bank with the full spectrum of services for corporate and private clients. In Hungary OTP Group is a financial group which includes large affiliated companies, rendering services in sphere of insurance, the real estate, factoring, leasing and management of investment and pension funds.

For today the Hungarian bank has affiliated banks in Bulgaria, Croatia, Montenegro, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia and Ukraine. OTR group offers high-quality financial decisions for maintenance of requirements more than 11 million clients, who are served in more than 1000 banking establishments in 9 countries of the world. The Group personnel totals 18200 highly professional employees.

In June, 2006 OTP Bank Plc. (Hungary) bought one of leaders of native financial sector - Raiffeyzenbank Ukraine.

According to the company, the strategy of ОТР group development in Ukraine is development of its network branches, increasing in spectrum of services for physical persons, introduction of advanced electronic technologies of servicing, such as telephone, mobile and Internet banking.