More than 217,000 people have opened at Banca Comerciala Romana (BCR) current accounts with zero costs and with debit cards free of charge, of whom 54,000 are pupils and students. The commercial offer was introduced in February 2016. More than 300,000 new clients chose to open accounts at BCR, in 2016. Transactions with BCR cards have increased significantly over the last year, along with eliminating trading fees for the most important operations.
The number of transactions made via POS systems installed at merchants, by BCR’s private individual clients rose 20% in the first nine months of 2016, compared with the same period of 2015.
BCR clients enjoyed over 44 million transactions free of charge since the implementation of the offer, in October 2015, via ATMs and multifunctional systems installed across Romania.
The BCR current account with zero fees, introduced in the commercial offer in February 2016, offers every person the possibility to open a current bank account with debit card free of charge and with no extra bank fees.