BCR Snapshot
One of the largest banks in Romania, Banca Comerciala Romana (BCR) offers some 4.5 million customers standard retail banking products such as car and home loans, debit and credit cards, and traveler's checks. On the commercial banking side, BCR caters to small and midsized businesses, offering such products and services as foreign currency loans, corporate debit cards, and bank guarantee letters, while its stock market offerings include open investment funds and municipal and corporate bonds. With roots going back to 1990, BCR operates more than 640 branches. Austria's Erste Group Bank owns some 70% of BCR; it offered to buy the rest in 2011.
