OTP Bank Albania (formerly Societe Generale Albania; absorbed Alpha Bank Albania)
Ownership as documented
OTP Group (Hungary), listed in Budapest.
Description
Hungarian OTP Group's Albanian subsidiary. Bought Societe Generale Albania (agreement Aug 2018, closed March 2019) and Alpha Bank Albania (signed Dec 2021, EUR 55m; completed later). Bank of Albania approved a name change and the Alpha absorption.
Contracts and money
Figures recorded for the cases linked to this organisation. A figure here is not necessarily paid to or by this organisation; check payer and payee.
OTP purchase of Alpha Bank Albania
€55,000,000
contractSource label: VerifiedStated definition: Headline price, signed Dec 2021; completion date per SeeNews (2022).
Date: Dec 2021 · Payer: OTP Bank · Payee: Alpha Bank (Greece)
- OTP Bank signs deal to buy Alpha Bank's Albanian unit (opens in a new tab)Retail Banker International · Dec 2021 · journalism · EN
Officials and people linked
Former deputy GM of Societe Generale Albania (now OTP Albania); left in 2015
Evidence: Bank's CV: deputy general manager at Societe Generale Albania immediately before governorship. OTP bought the unit 2018-2019.
Investigations and cases
Sorted by reported money, then by linked people and their legal status. The money figure is the largest single reported figure, not a total.
From Aug 2018
Sale of Alpha Bank Albania to OTP (signed Dec 2021) and of Societe Generale Albania to OTP (2018-2019)
Two OTP acquisitions in Albania under the Bank of Albania's approval. OTP agreed in August 2018 to buy Societe Generale Albania and closed on 29 March 2019; the Bank of Albania approved the rename to…
Status: Completed (the SG deal in 2019; Alpha absorption approved later).
Sources for this record
Every source the research cites for this record, grouped by its source label. 4 sources.
Source label: VerifiedVerified · 3 sources
- Publisher
- SeeNews
- Date
- 2022
- Publisher
- Budapest Business Journal
- Date
- Mar 2019
- Publisher
- SeeNews
- Date
- 2019
Source label: Officially reportedOfficially reported · 1 source
- Publisher
- Bank of Albania
- Date
- 2022