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Post by vacationman on Mar 13, 2010 13:24:24 GMT 1
Hello I am looking into buying a vacation home in Croatia, nearby Zadar..
In order to pay the local invoices it would be nice to have a local bank,
and do the transactions over the Internet..
Which banks can be advised ? offer good service ?
thank you very much !
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Post by upthevilla on Mar 13, 2010 14:49:51 GMT 1
raiffeisen bank
hypo bank
erste bank
all ok, have internet banking
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Post by justapixel on Mar 13, 2010 18:59:31 GMT 1
Zaba has probably the best Internet banking, but Erste is also ok, because it avoids the hassle of reentering the PIN for each transaction. PBZ is sometimes too complicated, but is getting better, while Erste Internet banking is a joke (they still use password lookup on a piece of paper instead of tokens or chip cards ;D).
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Post by crojoe on Mar 13, 2010 19:20:32 GMT 1
RBA (raiffeissen) have almost done away with the token system and now have another system that you plug into your USB port, then insert a card and away you go. I don't know much about Split bank or PBZ, but RBA site is in English. The problem is it has to be a business account, otherwise RBA don't give private foreign customers a card. Without the card, you get no internet banking. Just another one of those stupid Croatian systems to stop "MONEY LAUNDERING".
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Post by Carol on Mar 13, 2010 20:47:35 GMT 1
maybe the rules have changed for RBA, but i have a foreigners private account with internet banking, as do several of our former clients who the agency advised. I have the token kind though and if RBA move to the USB sort, then I'll leave (not that RBA would even notice).
PBZ had the USB port type and that was a real nuisance.
Erste, RBA, PBZ, Splitska (and probably several others) all offer internet banking in English. Maybe i just liked Splitska because they have a branch on Kastel Novi riva (so a 1 min walk from our office) and the manager there went out of his way to be helpful.
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Post by Madgolfer on Mar 19, 2010 12:20:13 GMT 1
More than happy with Zaba.
Straight forward and easy to use in plain English.
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Post by Madgolfer on Mar 26, 2010 7:49:52 GMT 1
Why are Croatians so "anti" Zaba?
No one seems to like them here, anyone know why?
From what I can see it has very little to do with costs, the charges of the various banks all seem to be pretty close.
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Post by gmh on Mar 26, 2010 9:30:29 GMT 1
Bad memories perhaps. When I first moved here, Zaba had the look,feel and efficiency of a communistic institution. The service was horrid. Things have probably changed now, but the customers they lost to the new fancy foreign banks won't be heading back I guess.
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Post by investcroatia on Mar 28, 2010 14:12:40 GMT 1
PBZ works for me. I can access this bank online from the UK and have ability to pay bills online via bank transfer. You are provided with a token card for security. They have quite a few branches across Croatia covering North or South.
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