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Summary of Proposed Investment

Project Number

24102

Company Name

OTP BANK S.A.

Date SPI Disclosed

Jan 6, 2006

Country

Moldova

Industry

Financial Markets

Projected Board Date

Feb 13, 2006

Status

Completed

Sector

Commercial Banking - General

Department

Global Industry, Financial Markets

Environmental Category

FI-1 - Significant

Previous Events

Approved : Mar 10, 2006
Signed : Mar 22, 2006
Invested : May 8, 2006

Project Description

Mobiasbanca (or the Bank) was founded in 1990 as a private financial institution. Today, Mobiasbanca is the sixth largest commercial bank in Moldova with over 7% of banking sector assets and almost 8% of loan portfolio. Having main business and strong background in corporate lending, Mobiasbanca has also recently focused on SME and consumer lending.

The project is a six-year $5 million senior loan from IFC to enable Mobiasbanca to provide medium-term loans to private Moldovan small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and to the retail sector. The project will enable IFC to support a profitable bank in Moldova to diversify its funding sources and to meet the increasing financing needs of SMEs, a key source of growth and employment in Moldova.

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