Unico Banking Group, which was founded in 1977, is a group of eight banks that have a cooperative background and origin. In 1997, the group was formally registered as a European Economic Interest Group (EEIG), and in 2003 its headquarters moved from Amsterdam to Brussels.
The Group's members are: Crédit Agricole S.A. (France), DZ BANK (Germany), ICCREA Holding (Italy), Pohjola Bank plc (Finland), Rabobank (The Netherlands) and RZB Group (Austria). Banco Cooperativo Español (Spain) and Raiffeisen Schweiz (Switzerland) are associate members.
From the beginning, Unico has aimed to develop business cooperation between its members, sharing best practices and know-how and joining forces for common development and services.
With more than 80 million clients, the Unico banks are among the most important players on the banking and insurance scene. The Group's members are leaders in their respective markets covering a wide range of financial services from retail and corporate to investment and merchant banking. The link between them is a shared cooperative background, which means that they are oriented towards customer value by tradition and culture. Each individual organisation pursues its own strategy domestically and internationally.
Unico is the largest banking alliance in Europe. This long-standing partnership is based on common values, corporate governance, cooperative roots and structure, mutual trust and confidence between partners.
On a project basis, the cooperation is sometimes extended to outside parties in order to serve the clients. UniCash, our international cash management service, consists of 27 partners covering 25 countries in Europe and the United States.
At the very first stage of the current rebuilding process of the banking landscape, Unico banks are committed to being a major driving force for regeneration.