BCR is the most important financial group in Romania, including companies on the leasing, private pension and housing bank markets. BCR is Romania’s No. 1 bank in terms of savings and crediting and it is also Romania’s most important financial brand.
BCR provides a full range of financial products and services through a network of 22 corporate business centers and 22 mobile offices dedicated to corporate clients, and 510 retails units located in most communities inhabited by at least 10,000 citizens. BCR customers have the largest ATM network at their disposal – over 2,600 ATMs/MFM and 17,800 POS terminals enabling customers to use their cards for shopping purposes, as well as the complete Internet banking, mobile banking, phone-banking and e-commerce services.
From 2006 on, BCR became a member of Erste Group, which was founded 1819 as the first Austrian savings bank. Since 1997 Erste Group has developed into one of the largest financial services providers in Central and Eastern Europe, with more than 47,400 employees serving around 16.2 million clients in 2,510 branches in 7 countries (Austria, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia).