S&P: Hungarian OTP Bank is Europe’s best-performing
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According to the latest ranking of S&P Global Market Intelligence, the Hungarian OTP Bank became Europe’s best-performing bank in 2023.
S&P shared its latest ranking a few days ago, saying that the Hungarian bank became Europe’s best because of the strong credit spreads thanks to the higher interest rates. Poland’s PKO Bank Polski and Bank Polska Opieki finished in the second and third positions. Those are Poland’s biggest banks.
The S&P Global Market Intelligence ranked Europe’s 50 biggest banks present on the stock market.
Banks profited from the higher national bank interest rates introduced because of the high European inflation in 2023. For example, the base rate in Hungary was 13% in 2023, while in Poland, 6.75%, portfolio.hu wrote. Thus, we may say that OTP performed well, but the Hungarian economy and crediting froze in 2023, which was bad news for investments and most citizens.
