In its World’s Best Sub-Custodian Banks 2010 survey, Global Finance magazine awarded UniCredit Group for its achievements in Central and Eastern Europe. The US-based financial magazine selected UniCredit as Best Sub-Custodian Bank in Central and Eastern Europe. Furthermore, UniCredit scores number one in Austria and Croatia.

The recent success with Global Finance is the latest of a series of top ratings attributed by the media to the Investors Service’s product line of UniCredit this year, with number one positions achieved in the surveys of Global Custodian and Global Investor earlier this year. “We have made it to the top in each possible custody survey this year, underpinning UniCredit Group’s leading role as a reliable expert for post-trade procedures”, commented Attila Szalay-Berzeviczy, Global Head of UniCredit Group’s Global Securities Services.

UniCredit Group’s Global Securities Services operates in 14 Central and Eastern European countries (including Austria) via UniCredit’s own banking network. It is the biggest provider of securities safekeeping services in the region, for assets under management, for market share as well as for the size of its regional network.

The Group has been active in this business since beginning of the 1990’s, always having played a pioneer role in the development of the securities markets of the region. The team consists of 230 industry experts across Central and Eastern Europe.