Awards for excellence – Hungary

Best Bank:

OTP Bank

Best debt house:

Central-European International Bank

Best equity house:

Erste Bank

Best M&A house:

CA IB

Hungarian banks are ahead of others in the region since Hungary was one of the first eastern European countries to open up. The first foreign banks started operating there in the mid-1980s.

OTP Bank stands out as one of the best banks in the region. It is dynamic and transparent, has a strong management and sound capital structure, and from a shareholders point of view returns hardly get any better than its 28% ROE.