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UniCredit Bank obtains the Account of the Year 2016 award

U Konto by UniCredit Bank is the best current account in the Czech Republic. In a prestigious competition of banking products entitled Fincentrum Bank of the Year 2016, UniCredit Bank ranked first in the Account of the Year category. Experts have awarded its unique current account, which offers a whole range of services and withdrawals from all ATMs worldwide free of charge. Moreover, the bank offers a ten-year guarantee of the account conditions. Since its creation in 2014, the U Konto by UniCredit Bank has been opened by more than 315 thousand clients of the bank.

"We have been the first bank in the Czech and Slovak market to introduce the fee-free account in April 2014. We aimed to meet not only the clients’ requirements and expectations as regards modern, innovative and user-friendly current accounts, we also wanted to positively surprise our clients. That is why the U Konto provides not only a whole range of services free of charge, including online transactions and mobile banking, but also withdrawals from ATMs worldwide. Moreover, clients are able to conveniently use all these benefits in the long term, owing to the ten-year guarantee of conditions," says Giovanni Guidi, Head of Retail and Private Banking at UniCredit Bank.

Clients can open the fee-free account at branches at UniCredit Bank or UniCredit Bank Expres, partners´ corners or fully online. Subject to an active use of the U Konto, clients can use the account completely free of charge. All you need to do is send, let’s say, your pay to this account and generate a monthly credit turnover of CZK 12,000. For young people up to 26 years of age, the U Konto is free of charge without any conditions. Within the U Konto, clients obtain a free-of-charge account keeping, debit payment card, electronic transactions, and access to Online and Smart Banking. Moreover, with the U Konto, clients do not have to waste their time by looking for an ATM and they can withdraw cash free of charge at any ATM at home or worldwide with no limitations. In the U Konto TANDEM option, clients can meet the condition of active account use in pairs, getting two mutually independent accounts.

Both existing and new clients who currently open the favourable free-of-charge U Konto in the bank get the opportunity to buy a powerful and elegant Huawei P9 lite Dual SIM smartphone under favourable conditions. Owing to the pre-approved credit card, they can get the smartphone for only CZK 499 a month for 12 months.