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The Global Finance magazine announced its selections for the 18th annual Best Sub-custodian Bank Awards. The selections include more than 80 countries worldwide. Global Finance’s editorial board considered market research, input from expert sources and entry information from banks to select the institutions that reliably provide the best services in local markets. The criteria included customer relations, quality of service, competitive pricing, technology platforms, business continuity plans, knowledge of local regulations and practices, and smooth handling of exception items. Global Finance...

OTP banka finalised the donation cycle within the initiative named “Green light to those who help” where during one month it made donations to the total of 25 associations and projects dealing with and aimed at mitigating the difficulties and challenges caused by COVID-19 epidemic. In addition to the associations we have been donating so far, our employees decided to make a donation to the association of women receiving cancer treatment "Sve za nju" (All for Her) from Zagreb, to contribute to the procurement of two suction devices by the “Kolibrići” association, and to enable the dance...

OTP Bank’s 3rd Startup Program has reached an important milestone: as part of its online Demo Day held on 20 May, the 13 participating startups presented the results from the 3-month pilot period of March to May to an audience of more than 1100 professionals, including the executives of the Banking Group, investors, and representatives of the corporate sponsors of the Program. Solutions with the highest business potential will be granted an opportunity to go live as part of the Program’s 6-month rollout phase, starting in June.  Announced in autumn 2019, OTP Bank’s 3rd startup...

After its success in 2019, OTP Bank’s innovation hub, OTP LAB has again earned the “Best Financial Innovation Labs” award from Global Finance Magazine in 2020. With this award, the periodical recognized those financial innovation hubs that are constantly exploring new avenues and employing novel approaches in the world of finance, and named the institutions that are the most innovative in developing banking services and products of the future. In a prestigious international field, the expert panel awarded OTP LAB alongside the innovation labs of 34 global corporations such as Barclays,...

OTP banka enables its clients to make donations to seven Croatian hospitals in the form of the points they have collected in OTPetica, bank’s loyalty scheme. In times like these, when we are fighting the Corona virus pandemic, more than ever we have become aware of the need to have a widely available health care, especially for the most vulnerable groups. That is precisely why we would like to offer our clients who have been using our OTPetica, a unique loyalty scheme, to take part in the OTP banka initiative - giving green light to the health of us all.  Using various services of the...

OTP banka d.d. donated additional HRK 1.4 million to hospitals across Croatia to help them face the emergency measures in the fight against Covid-19 virus. By donating HRK 200 thousand to the general hospitals in Zadar, Šibenik, Split, Dubrovnik, Osijek, Sisak and Pula, we are trying to help them obtain the necessary equipment and supplies. The mentioned hospitals will use the proceeds to purchase ventilators, protective equipment, beds and other items that are currently essential and urgently needed for their commendable work on protecting of the health of all of us. “Wishing to ease the...

OTP banka d.d. donated 1.5 million HRK /200 000 EUR to University Hospital Center Zagreb and University Hospital Center Sisters of Mercy as an aid to renovate medical equipment, appliances and hospital facilities damaged in the earthquake.   Zagreb hospitals suffered grave damage in last Sunday's earthquake. In these extraordinary conditions, when all employed in the medical system invest enormous endeavors to suppress Covid-19 pandemic and care of our citizens' health, the damage caused by earthquake made their work even more challenging.  Having in mind the importance of these...

The OTP Startup Program, OTP Bank’s second international accelerator program has come to an end. On the closing Demo Day, the 9 companies participating in the Program presented the results of the 12-week-long joint work to experts, potential investors and the credit institution’s management. The development of the best solutions is set to continue, along with the joint efforts of the Bank and the startups to incorporate them into the Bank’s operations. ​Last autumn, OTP Bank announced its second open call for startups. There was a great deal of interest in the OTP Startup Program, which is...

For the fourth year in a row, OTP banka has been selected for the best custodian bank in the Republic of Croatia in the unweighted category in the choice of Global Investor / ISF magazine. In the period from 1st of February until 14th of March this year, Custodian Clients had the opportunity to rate their securities services providers in over 10 categories, from quality of relationship management, settlement services and corporate actions, to quality of market information timely provided, including regulatory changes. OTP banka has been awarded with highest scores unweighted by size of...

Nine post-product/market fit startups and scaleups will have the opportunity to cooperate with OTP Bank under the second batch of the credit institution’s international startup programme. Over the course of the three-month programme, the companies invited to join the scheme can test their products and services with the support of several bank departments, while also aiming to prove their maturity and readiness to develop a long-term cooperation with the banking group. Applications for OTP Bank’s second international startup and scaleup program were open from last October, and a great number...