by foreign banks, particularly from the EU). There are around 44 banks (including 21 foreign bank branches, four building societies) and 14 credit unions. The four largest banks are Ceska Sporitelna (Erste Group), Komercni Banka (Société Générale), CSOB (KBC Group) and Unicredit Bank, with just under60 per cent of assets between them. There is heightened competition for these from small to medium-sized banks. The country was largely immune from the financial crisis and it has an extremely favourable loan-to-deposit ratio (under 80 per cent). The volumes of bank loans has been rising.
Again, it has been a fairly dormant country for system sales.
Decisions tend to be made in head offices (Vienna etc), not in Prague. There was one deal in 2010, for Sungard’s Ambit/Quantum treasury system.
There area couple of domestic suppliers. Arbes has software
in a fair few banks in the country. Poland-based Asseco SEE is active in the country. A new direct bank, Zuno Bank, went live with Infosys’ Finacle in mid-2011. The Czech Republic has also become the main focus for a long-running, delayed implementation of Finacle at Raiffeisen.
TurboConsult,foundedin1990,hasanestablished core
banking offering used by co-operative banks and credit unions, Cibis, and a newer offering aimed at small commercial banks as well as credit unions, Elbos. The 60-personcompanyis also active in Slovakia, Poland and the Ukraine. The Baltic States and South Eastern Europe (with a user already in Croatia) are also targets. GE Money Bank is a long-standing customer.
Hungary
Three-quarters of the Hungarian banking sector is now controlled by foreign banks including Unicredit, KBC, Erste Group, Intesa Sanpaolo, and Raiffeisen Bank International. OTP, Hungary’s largest lender by assets, is the main exception.
Hungary’s banking sector has been under intense pressure since Viktor Orban and his Fidesz party won a landslide victory in elections in 2010. Soon after he introduced supposedly temporary ‘emergency taxes’ on the banks. A debt-relief plan in 2011 saw the country’s banks lose $1.7 billion and react by pulling out capital equal to 23 per cent of GDP and cutting new lending. In November 2013, the country’s competition authority imposed fines of 9.5 bn forint (€32 million) on eleven commercial lenders for allegedly forming a cartel against the 2011 foreign currency mortgage scheme.
This is another market that was once a happy hunting
ground for system suppliers. Oflate, it has brought relatively sparse pickings, with these spread across SAP for Loans Management (including the only signing in the country in 2012) and Calypso in 2010 at OTP, Oracle FSS in 2009, building
on three wins back in 2006, and Misys with Equation and FIS with Profile in 2007 (there were no deals at all in 2008 or 2011). In 2013, TCS had a Bancs win at the country’s central depository and clearing house, Keler. In 2016, home grown lending and risk management supplier, Loxon, won a contract with Raiffeisen Bank Hungary for its lending solution.
Macedonia (FYROM)
Asseco’s Pexim-derived core system, PUB 2000, is heavily used in Macedonia. Indeed, it was custom-made for a local bank, Ohridska Bank, in 1994. The bank, now part of Société Générale, is still a customer. A tailored edition of the system is used by some of the central banks in the region, including National Bank of Macedonia. Asseco, in a relatively busy year, had a win here in 2014 for PUB 2000 from Macedonia Bank for Development Promotion.
There were no known core system sales in Macedonia in
2010, 2011, 2012 or 2013. Prior to this, the last recorded deal for anyone other than Asseco came in 2009 and was for Neptune’s Rubikon at Savings House Mozhnosti. In 2008, the country had produced two deals, for Oracle FSS’s Flexcube (from Universal Investment Bank or Unibank) and PUB 2000. The latter was from IK Bank, which changed its name to Halkbank AD Skopje in mid-2011 as a result of its acquisition by Turkey’s Halkbank.
Moldova
The banking market here is small and was in the past dominated by Russian systems, such as CFT-Bank from CFT and Va-Bank from Fors Banking Systems, but the banks are starting to look elsewhere, reflected in two deals in 2012 for Temenos with T24, of which one was Victoria Bank. This bank was a long-standing user of a heavily customised version of the Equation core banking system from Misys. It became the country’s first commercial bank when it was established in 1989, as well as the first financial institution to later introduce plastic cards, ATMs and POS terminals in Moldova. Today it has the European Bank for Reconstruction and Developmee ent (EBRD) among its shareholders.
Further reflecting an opening up, in 2013, Ukraine-based
CS Ltd gained the first deal for its flagship core offering, B2, abroad. The bank is also implementing CS Ltd’s iFOBS internet banking system and the front-end solution, JetB2.
In early 2014, Moldova’s central bank went to market for a
new core banking system, with TCS, Temenos and Asseco believed to be among contenders. The bank uses a heavily customised, legacy version of Va-Bank.
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