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Top romanian banks in 2012: BCR and BRD continue to lose ground, Transilvania and CEC are the winners

Autor: Bancherul.ro
2013-02-24 19:23
The two romanian largest banks controlled by Austria's Erste Group (BCR) and France's Societe Generale (BRD) lost market share by assets in 2012, in favor of two Romanian banks that took advantage of the crisis to strengthen their market position: state bank CEC and the majority domestic private bank: Banca Transilvania.

Romanian banks with majority foreign capital have reduced in 2012 by 1.3 percentage points their share of assets of all banking system, to 81.7%. In the last four years of crisis, the share of foreign banks decreased by 6.5 points, from 88.2% in 2008.

Romanian banks increased their assets in 2012 by almost 12 billion lei, up to a total of 365.9 billion lei.

BCR lost 1.53 points, the most of the 10 top banks, falling below 20% of total banking assets, while BRD lost 0.49 points, to 13%.

The two banks are followed by Banca Transilvania, with 8% of assets, which won 0.81 points in 2012, and CEC and UniCredit, both in ascent. Raiffeisen continued to lose ground, going downd to number 6, after a long period when it was the 3rd in the banking system.

Banks that gained market share in 2012:

BT
CEC
UniCredit
ING
Garanti
Citi
Credit Europe Bank
Intesa
Carpatica
OTP
Italo-Romena

Banks that have lost market share in 2012:

BCR
BRD
Raiffeisen
Volksbank
Alpha
Bancpost
Piraeus
Romanian
RBS
Eximbank

Market share of banks in 2012 and (2011)

1. BCR: 19.27% (20.8%)
2. BRD: 13.09% (13.58%)
3. BT: 8.08% (7.27%)
4. CEC Bank: 7.35% (7.01%)
5. UniCredit Tiriac Bank: 6.85% (6.30%)
6. Raiffeisen: 6.45% (6.70%)
7. Volksbank: 4.51% (5.01%)
8. ING: 4.51% (4.10%)
9. Alpha Bank: 4.50% (4.66%)
10.Bancpost: 3.31% (3.47%)

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