Internal market

As Austria’s leading bank for corporate customers we are active in a relatively small home market, but in a market which is very open and internationally interdependent: according to a representative survey carried out by BA-CA, 60 per cent of medium-sized companies in Austria and 48 per cent of small companies carry out cross-border business. It is thus obvious that the uniform divisional structure of corporate customer business in UniCredit Group provides a visible advantage for our customers. From BA-CA’s point of view, the majority of our customers’ cross-border activities do not take place abroad but in UniCredit Group’s internal market, in our home markets of Italy, Germany and CEE. We provide support for the Austrian export industry throughout the world. And through the close connections between our product lines and service platforms we use networks and economies of scale. After all, a bank has to be as international as its corporate customers.