OREANDA-NEWS.  UniCredit Bank's Branch №34 in Krivoy Rog has become its 40th newly opened branch, the bank's press service reports. Such banking products for private individuals as mortgage, consumer loans, deposit banking, car loans are offered at the branch. UniCredit Bank offers a wide range of banking services in 16 cities of Ukraine, serving more than 50 000 clients now in 40 "new format" branches. European-format branches are convenient for clients and offer high-quality banking services for corporate and retail business.
 
UniCredit Group is the largest European banking group. The Group is present in 23 countries, with over 40 million clients and 9 000 branches, approximately 170 thousand employees. The Group has the largest banks in Austria, Poland, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Croatia. The second player by market share in Italy and Germany, one of the fifth largest banks in Serbia, Slovenia,Romania, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Turkey. UniCredit Bank was established in Lutsk back in 1997 as Pekao Bank (Ukraine) and was a member of Pekao Group S.A, which was controlled by UniCredit Group. In June 2006, the Bank changed its name to UniCredit Bank according to the business strategy development of UniCredit Group in Ukraine. In September 2007, UniCredit Bank completed merger with HVB Bank Ukraine. As of November 1, 2007, net assets of UniCredit Bank totaled UAH 5.150 billion.