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Banca Comerciala Romana (BCR) offers its clients who are Romtelecom subscribers the opportunity of paying their bills to the phone company by using direct Debit, with zero fees.

Holders of BCR current accounts in RON, both individuals and companies, can make regular payments without having to actually go to the bank anymore, by passing for payment the bank to transfer the money directly into their accounts.

In order for clients to have access to Debit Direct, they simply have to sign a Mandating Contract available in any BCR branch office.

Among the advantages of this system are: avoiding the risk of late payments to various providers, due to various reasons; saving time by making these regular payments; avoiding front desk queues for payment of utilities/services or monthly installments.

A member of Erste group, BCR is a universal bank whose services have been designed to suit the needs of both retail and corporate clients. BCR is the most important banking institution in Romania, managing over 17.5 billion Euros worth assets. BCR is the most valuable financial brand in Romania. The bank provides the entire range of products and services for the population by its current 643 retail units (focusing on population and small-sized enterprises) operating in the entire country, in most cities counting more than 10,000 inhabitants. Corporate clients can benefit from BCR�s services by our 50 corporate business centers, mainly dedicated to small and medium-sized enterprises and to large companies. Our clients, both natural and legal entities can benefit from a complex range of banking products and services, including the internet banking, phone-banking and e-commerce services. BCR issues 24 types of credit and debit cards and has installed the biggest national ATMs and POSs network � about 1,800 automatic teller machines and more than 15,000 point-of-sale electronic terminals allowing payments by card. Today BCR is the most important financial group in Romania, operating both in the country and aboard - by its subsidiaries and offices, also significantly present on the leasing market, by its corresponding companies, in the asset management area, on the capital market, in the private pensions sector, in the residential banks area, as well as in insurances.

With its over 54,000 employees, Erste Bank is one of the biggest financial service suppliers in Central Europe, with more than 16 million clients in almost 3,000 units located in 8 countries (Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia and Ukraine). On September 30, 2008 the bank managed 209.4 billion Euros worth assets, its net profit amounted to 1,463.0 million Euros, while the undertaken capital�s profitability amounted to 21.7%.