UniCredit Bulbank was distinguished late last night as the most innovative bank in Bulgaria at the E-volution Awards for digital business given by Forbes Bulgaria Magazine.

"Innovations and change are part of the way we do business. The innovation leaders have no recipe to follow and the path is not always straight and easy. The direction, however, must be known. Because no one knows the date on which fixed telephony died but we all know that it is gone. Whoever wants to be on the market and to lead must invest in innovations.", commented Levon Hampartzoumian, Chair of the Management Board and Chief Executive Officer of UniCredit Bulbank, who received the award on behalf of the bank. He shared that it was an honour and pleasure for him to be at the event with so many capable, reasoning and knowledgeable young people, some of whom received well-deserved E-volution awards in the various categories.

It was commented by Forbes Bulgaria that the award for UniCredit Bulbank was an objective official confirmation of the information already known in the IT sector, and not only there, about the numerous innovations introduced by the bank.

The innovations in favour of the customer are one of the priority spheres of UniCredit Bulbank. The bank makes considerable investments in improvement of the customer experience. In the recent years, for example, the number of branches of the type Branch of the Future has been increasing constantly. Another project of international recognition is the innovative business space International Center, with which UniCredit Bulbank contributes to the attracting of foreign business and investors to Bulgaria. Among the novelties is also the creation of a special unit in the bank for active work with start-ups. Besides, the factoring company has just launched the first on the market electronic portal for factoring services in Bulgaria – еFactoring.bg. UniCredit Bulbank is also the first bank in Bulgaria with a private cloud for IT infrastructure. The migration to innovative cloud services ensures greater flexibility in the launch of new products, increases the efficiency in the troubleshooting of technical problems and optimizes the IT processes in the bank.

UniCredit Bulbank is the winner of the international award Best Consumer Digital Bank of Global Finance, as well as of the prize IT Project of the Year in the corporate sector in our country, which is awarded by ICT Media.

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UniCredit Bulbank, Identity & Communications Department

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