Issuer profile: In June 2006 OTP Bank Plc. (Hungary) has purchased one of the leaders of the Ukrainian financial sector - Raiffeisenbank Ukraine, founded in 1998 as a bank with 100% foreign capital. Since 2001 Raiffeisenbank entered Top-10 of the largest banks of Ukraine. At the moment of acquisition the bank served more than 100 thousand clients, providing the complete range of services to corporate clients, private individuals and also to small and medium enterprises. The Bank ranked 6th among the Ukrainian banks according to total assets, capital and loan portfolio and 5th in terms of loans, granted to private individuals. The branch network amounted to 40 institutions on the territory of Ukraine. The personnel comprised more than 1500 high-professional employees.

Since its foundation, the Bank took leading positions in corporate business and proved itself as a bank-innovator. The Bank was the first one on the Ukrainian banking market to start rendering such new products as structured trade finance, project finance and other tailor-made services for large corporate clients.

Effective bank performance found its reflection not only in figures but also in the estimation of the bank activity by leading Ukrainian economic editions. So, according to the results of financial rating of «Business» newspaper Raiffeisenbank took the 1st place in the nomination «Bank you’d place a deposit at» in 2003-2004. No less popular edition «Investgazeta» for three consecutive ears acknowledged the Bank as a leader in financial sector. Leading English edition Kyiv Post declared the bank as “The best Bank” in 2004-2005.

The Bank owes such a success story due to the wide range of perfect and transparent banking services and due to the high-professional team trying to meet the needs of customers and providing high quality financial solutions of European standards. In June 2006 OTP Bank Plc. (Hungary) has purchased one of the leaders of the Ukrainian financial sector - Raiffeisenbank Ukraine, founded in 1998 as a bank with 100% foreign capital. Since 2001 Raiffeisenbank entered Top-10 of the largest banks of Ukraine. At the moment of acquisition the bank served more than 100 thousand clients, providing the complete range of services to corporate clients, private individuals and also to small and medium enterprises. The Bank ranked 6th among the Ukrainian banks according to total assets, capital and loan portfolio and 5th in terms of loans, granted to private individuals. The branch network amounted to 40 institutions on the territory of Ukraine. The personnel comprised more than 1500 high-professional employees.

Since its foundation, the Bank took leading positions in corporate business and proved itself as a bank-innovator. The Bank was the first one on the Ukrainian banking market to start rendering such new products as structured trade finance, project finance and other tailor-made services for large corporate clients.

Effective bank performance found its reflection not only in figures but also in the estimation of the bank activity by leading Ukrainian economic editions. So, according to the results of financial rating of «Business» newspaper Raiffeisenbank took the 1st place in the nomination «Bank you’d place a deposit at» in 2003-2004. No less popular edition «Investgazeta» for three consecutive ears acknowledged the Bank as a leader in financial sector. Leading English edition Kyiv Post declared the bank as “The best Bank” in 2004-2005.

The Bank owes such a success story due to the wide range of perfect and transparent banking services and due to the high-professional team trying to meet the needs of customers and providing high quality financial solutions of European standards.

After the deal closing in November 2006, OTP Bank Plc became a hundred-per-cent proprietor of Raiffeisenbank Ukraine. and the bank was renamed to OTP Bank accordingly. The new owner of bank–OTP Bank Plc.–is the largest bank in Hungary with market share of almost 25%.

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