UniCredit Bank

UniCredit Bank Hungary, legally UniCredit Bank Hungary Zrt., is a commercial bank operating in Hungary. It traces its origins to 1990, when Creditanstalt established a Hungarian subsidiary under the name Creditanstalt Rt. Its history reflects successive changes in the ownership and organization of its European parent groups, before the Hungarian bank became part of the Italian UniCredit group. The bank serves individual customers and provides retail banking services through its Hungarian operation. Its website presents services and tools including bank accounts, online account opening, payment cards, Google Pay, online appointment and queue management, branch and ATM information, and customer support. The website also lists foreign-exchange information and directs customers to guidance on fraud prevention. The supplied evidence does not establish a complete inventory of its business-banking, lending, or investment offerings. The institution became part of UniCredit following the group’s acquisition of HVB in 2005, and adopted the UniCredit Bank name on February 1, 2007. The bank’s website identifies its Hungarian legal entity as UniCredit Bank Hungary Zrt. and gives a Budapest address at Szabadság tér 5–6. Its parent is UniCredit Group. The evidence describes a Hungarian banking operation and does not establish a separate market footprint outside Hungary.

UniCredit Bank Hungary’s origins date to 1990, when Creditanstalt established Creditanstalt Rt. as its Hungarian subsidiary. The bank subsequently changed names as ownership of the parent institution changed. In 1997, Bank Austria acquired Creditanstalt, and the Hungarian institution became Bank Austria Creditanstalt Hungary Rt. Bank Austria was acquired by Germany’s HypoVereinsbank in 2000. The Hungarian operation later combined with another bank in the HypoVereinsbank group. HYPO-BANK Hungaria Rt. had been founded in 1993 and operated as HypoVereinsbank Hungária Rt. from October 1998. The merger was followed by the Hungarian company adopting the name HVB Bank Hungary Rt. in September 2001. In 2005, Italy’s UniCredito Italiano S.p.A. acquired HVB. After that acquisition, the Hungarian bank became part of the UniCredit group. On February 1, 2007, the Hungarian company adopted the name UniCredit Bank, which it continues to use in its current legal name, UniCredit Bank Hungary Zrt. The Hungarian Wikipedia account also records that the bank’s mortgage and leasing activities operated through separate subsidiaries, UniCredit Jelzálogbank Zrt. and UniCredit Leasing Hungary Zrt., and that investment-fund management was assigned to Pioneer Alapkezelő Zrt. These details describe the structure reported in that historical account and do not establish the entities’ present status. It further reports that UniCredit Bank Hungary was Hungary’s third-largest bank in 2014 and gives a year-end 2018 balance-sheet total; those historical rankings and financial figures are not treated here as current measures. The available material confirms the bank’s continuing Hungarian website and retail-facing services, but does not provide a detailed account of later corporate or leadership developments.

• 2007

  The Hungarian bank adopts the UniCredit Bank name

• 2005

  UniCredito Italiano acquires HVB

• 2001

  The Hungarian bank adopts the HVB name

• 2000

  HypoVereinsbank acquires Bank Austria

• 1997

  Bank Austria acquires Creditanstalt

• 1990

  Creditanstalt establishes its Hungarian subsidiary

A Hungarian commercial bank within the UniCredit Group, offering retail banking and digital-service options.

• Retail banking and accounts

  The Hungarian website presents services for individual customers, including account options and online account opening.

• Digital payments and banking tools

  The website lists Google Pay and online tools for arranging branch visits and managing queue times.

• Branch, ATM, and foreign-exchange services

  The website provides branch and ATM information and foreign-exchange information.

• Adoption of the UniCredit Bank nameOther

• Unconfirmed

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1. 1UniCredit Bank Hungary official websiteunicreditbank.hu
2. 2Magánszemélyekunicreditbank.hu
3. 3UniCredit Bank (Magyarország)hu.wikipedia.org
4. 4UniCredit Bankwikidata.org
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