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The donations collected in the joined efforts of OTP banka d.d., Mastercard and all the clients donating by rounding up the amounts they paid in the first donation cycle of the Round Up! donation scheme, were used for purchase of the necessary diagnostic equipment for the Šibenik Hospital Paediatric Ward and the Institute of Neonatology of the Zagreb Clinical Hospital, where each hospital received HRK 527 thousand. In the second cycle of the scheme, the donations were used for the ultrasound device needed by the Paediatric Cardiology Unit of the Children’s Hospital in Split, and for...

The Council of the Croatian National Bank passed the decision to grant the approval for the appointment of Ivan Šimičević to the position of a member of the Board of OTP banka d.d. Based on the mentioned decision, today, on 15th March 2021, he assumed the position of the OTP banka d.d. Board member in charge of the Operations and IT Division. Ivan Šimičević was born in Zadar in 1985, and finished primary and secondary education in his hometown. He earned a degree in finances and banking from the Faculty of Economics in Rijeka in 2010. His career in banking started when he joined OTP banka in...

Despite the extraordinary challenges triggered by the pandemic, in 2020 the overall operation of the Group remained uninterrupted. It was quite an achievement that out of the previous acquisitions, the Bulgarian integration was completed in early May 2020, as well as the Montenegrin one in December. The sale of the Slovakian subsidiary was completed by the end of November. The integration process in Serbia has been proceeding smoothly and according to the plans it is going to be completed in 2Q 2021. The total volume of adjustment items in 2020 represented -HUF 50.6 billion (after tax)...

As the first donation cycle of the Round Up donation scheme has been completed, on behalf of OTP banka d.d., Mastercard and all the clients rounding up their bills, the Šibenik Hospital Paediatric Ward and the Institute of Neonatology of the Zagreb Clinical Hospital have been awarded donations totalling HRK 527 thousand per hospital intended for procurement of much needed equipment. OTP Round Up scheme continues this year as well, and the hospitals that will benefit this time are the Children’s Clinic of the Split Clinical Hospital and the Children’s Hospital at Klaićeva in Zagreb. OTP banka...

As a part of its programme “Green light to knowledge”, OTP banka provides support to students of lower financial standing and students with outstanding athletic achievements. Over the past eleven years, the Bank set aside almost seven million kunas. In the academic year 2020/2021, the Bank continued helping students of lower financial standing and student-athletes. The project for granting scholarships to students has been realised in partnership with the towns of Split, Zadar, Sisak and Biograd na Moru, the municipalities of Župa dubrovačka, Bilje, Jakšić, Bale, Barban and Pićan, the...

OTP banka d.d. will donate HRK 1.5 million to the Sisak General Hospital for replenishment of their medical equipment, for new devices and refurbishment of the buildings that sustained damage in the devastating earthquake. The Bank will also set aside an additional million to help the City of Sisak and the Sisak and Moslavina County. Through its programme Green light to entrepreneurs, it will provide necessary aid to the affected entrepreneurs. A special fund of HRK 500,000 has been set aside for Bank’s own employees whose homes have been damaged in the earthquake. Many of our fellow...

OTP banka d.d. made another significant donation for our health protection, this time in the amount of HRK 100.000 to the School of Medicine, University of Split for the procurement of medical equipment and supplies.  OTP banka d.d. is proud of a true partnership it has with the University of Split, shown through active cooperation with the University’s constituent units and through aiding many of their activities, as well as helping its students through donations. We want to point out how proud we are of our collaborative relationship with the University of Split and also that we have...

OTP closed the third quarter with a consolidated profit after tax of HUF 113.573 billion, so the profit for the first nine months of this year increased to HUF 188.171 billion at group level. OTP’s management is committed to pay dividend after 2020 in such a magnitude that it also compensates shareholders for the originally proposed divident after 2019, for which the pay-out was stopped at the request of the regulator. The 9M consolidated accounting profit exceeded HUF 188 billion which already incorporated HUF 7.6 billion profit contribution from the Slovenian SKB Banka being part of the...

Within its new programme of awarding financial institutions and companies throughout the world, magazine Global Finance awarded OTP banka d.d. for Outstanding Crisis Leadership, for its relationship with both its clients and the community during the crisis caused by the Coronavirus pandemic. In 2020, all business entities were faced with unthinkable challenges that included not only business skills, but also protecting the health of their employees and clients, especially taking care of the society’s most vulnerable groups. Since this has become a completely new business environment, the...

As a part of its donation scheme called “Green light to … better society“, OTP banka invited the tender for donation requests and chose 37 projects among which it will distribute the total of HRK 500,000. This is the ninth consecutive year that OTP banka d.d. has been inviting tenders for donation requests for projects within four different categories: the young, education and science; protection of cultural, historic and traditional heritage and environmental protection; humanitarian projects and sports. We received several hundred applications from all over Croatia, out of which our...