The story
Main historical milestones:
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
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2003 – The automatic banking system implementation
2005 – First bank to launch a consumer-loan and a credit card
2007 – The Bank 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 the Bank 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 opened in Moldova
2019 – Purchase by OTP Bank
2020 – 30th anniversary of the Bank
2021 – the Bank finalizes the rebranding process and becomes OTP Bank S.A. (OTP Bank, Moldova).
From Wikipedia’s article on OTP Bank (Moldova), shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.5