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Mobiasbanca - OTP Group S.A.
Company typeSocietate pe Acțiuni
IndustryFinancial services
FoundedJuly 4, 1990
Headquarters81a, Ștefan cel Mare și Sfânt ave., Chisinau
Area served
Moldova, Republic of
Key people
Lászlό Diόsi (President of the Management Board - CEO)


Elena Guzun (Member of the Management Board, Commercial Director Corporate Banking)
Andrei Suruceanu (Member of the Management Board, Chief Financial Officer)

Stela Ciobanu (Member of the Management Board, General Secretary)
ProductsRetail, private, investment and corporate banking; insurance; investment management
RevenueDecrease MDL 667 million (2017)[1]
Decrease MDL 357 million (2017)[1]
Decrease MDL 278 million (2017)[1]
Total assetsIncrease MDL 10,114 billion (2017)[1]
Total equityIncrease MDL 1,519 billion (2017)[1]
Owner
Number of employees
714 (average, 2017)[1]
Websitemobiasbanca.md

Mobiasbanca is a bank in Moldova with headquarters in Chișinău. From 2007 to 2019, it was operated as a subsidiary of Société Générale, the French-headquartered bank. In 2019, OTP Bank of Hungary purchased a 96.69% stake in Mobiasbanca.[3]

History

Main historical milestones:[4]

  • 1990, July 4 – was set up as an independent bank with the legal status of Limited Liability Company
  • 1995 – One of the first bank allowed on the securities' market
  • 1996 – One of the first bank to benefit from credit lines granted by International Financial Organizations
  • 1996 – The Bank changed its legal status to Joint Stock Company
  • 1996 – Member of SWIFT international payment system
  • 1997 – 32.45% of share capital was acquired by the investment fund Development Capital Corporation, who remained to be the major shareholder of the Bank (63.68%)
  • 2002 – Member of the “Europay International” payment system
  • 2003 – The automatic banking system implementation
  • 2005 – First bank to launch a consumer-loan and a credit card
  • 2007 – Mobiasbanca has been purchased by Groupe Société Générale (95,35%)
  • 2008 – The bank changes the official name to CB “Mobiasbanca – Groupe Société Générale” S.A.
  • 2008 – Capital increase of Mobiasbanca and coming of new strategic shareholders (BRD – Groupe Société Générale) and EBRD (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development). The share of Societe Generale decreased as a result of this transaction and as of the end of 2008 effectively represents 67.85%.
  • 2008 – Principal member of MasterCard
  • 2009 – Implementation of telerecovery service
  • 2009 – MasterCard certification of cards with microchip
  • 2011 – Simplu Finance project launch
  • 2011 – First collection of cards created exclusively for women Chérie Chérie
  • 2012 – Launch of the Universal Desk concept
  • 2012 – Launch of new Call-Center (Contactell)
  • 2012 – MobiasInfo sms messaging service launch
  • 2012 – Launch of MasterCard Secure Code - secured payments over the Internet
  • 2013 – International certificate ISO 9001: 2008 "Quality Management Systems. Requirements", being the first bank in the country holding such a certificate
  • 2013 – IP telephony implementation
  • 2014 – New range of bank cards in the international payment system MasterCard - banking card endowed with EMV (embedded chip)
  • 2014 – Opening of the new Training Centre and Branch School
  • 2016 – Launch of VISA cards
  • 2017 – First Mortgage Center Mobiasbanca opened in Moldova
  • 2019 – Purchase by OTP Bank

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Annual Report 2017" (PDF). Mobiasbanca.
  2. ^ http://mobiasbanca.md/en/Profile
  3. ^ https://www.otpbank.hu/static/portal/sw/file/190206_moldova_015_e.pdf
  4. ^ https://mobiasbanca.md/en/history