The most visible banks in Romania, October 2026

October 2026 · 11 questions asked from Romania in Romanian and English · ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Gemini and Google AI Mode · 88 answers read

Industry Asked from Brands from Audience Engine Month

Leader

Banca Transilvania

84%of answers name it

Most cited source

bcr.ro

20citations

From Google AI Mode, Gemini, Google AI Overviews and ChatGPT

Where engines disagree most

Raiffeisen Bank

1/4engines put it in their top three

Top three on ChatGPT, not on Google AI Mode, Gemini and Google AI Overviews

Brands

Rank	Brand	Heralded Score	Mentioned	Recommended	Mentioned by	Change
= 11	Alpha Bank România RO	14 , range 10–25	10%	0%		First reading
= 11	EximBank RO	14 , range 10–25	9%	1%		First reading
= 11	OTP Bank HU	14 , range 10–25	10%	0%		First reading
14	Garanti BBVA RO	11 , range 4–20	6%	0%		First reading
–	Alior PL	Too few answers	1%	0%	None	First reading
–	Citibank US	Too few answers	1%	0%		First reading
–	CREDITCOOP RO	Too few answers	1%	0%		First reading
–	ING Home'Bank BE	Too few answers	1%	1%	None	First reading
–	Intesa Sanpaolo Bank RO	Too few answers	2%	0%		First reading
–	Nexent Bank RO	Too few answers	1%	1%		First reading

“=” marks brands whose score ranges overlap, so the test cannot separate them. Every brand named in at least three answers is ranked. By engine has one dot per engine (ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Gemini and Google AI Mode), darker the more often it names the brand.

Most cited sources

Rank	Source	Type	Cited in	Engines	Pages cited	Brands its pages mention
1	bcr.ro	Brand site	20.5%	4 of 4	15	1
2	Withheld. Run a full Snapshot to see it.
3	Withheld. Run a full Snapshot to see it.
4	Withheld. Run a full Snapshot to see it.
5	bancatransilvania.ro	Brand site	15.9%	4 of 4	10	2
6	Withheld. Run a full Snapshot to see it.
7	Withheld. Run a full Snapshot to see it.
8	fgdb.ro	Regulator	8.0%	1 of 4	5	2
9	bankingnews.ro	Media	10.2%	3 of 4	4	14
10	Withheld. Run a full Snapshot to see it.

The questions, and who wins each

Question	Language	Wins it
cele mai bune bănci din România	Romanian	CEC Bank and ING Bank România, tied
ce bănci recomandați	Romanian	Banca Transilvania and BCR, tied
top bănci în România	Romanian	Banca Transilvania, BCR, CEC Bank, ING Bank România and Raiffeisen Bank, tied
cum aleg bănci	Romanian	No brand recommended
la ce să mă uit când aleg bănci	Romanian	No brand recommended
bănci pentru firme mici	Romanian	Banca Transilvania, BCR, CEC Bank, Raiffeisen Bank, Revolut and Salt Bank, tied
care bănci sunt cele mai de încredere	Romanian	Banca Transilvania
best banks in Romania	English	Banca Transilvania and ING Bank România, tied
how to choose banks in Romania	English	Banca Transilvania, BCR and ING Bank România, tied
banks with the best customer service in Romania	English	Banca Transilvania and ING Bank România, tied

Each engine's top three

Google AI Mode

Gemini

Google AI Overviews

ChatGPT

Method

Each month Heralded asks every engine the same buyer questions, twice each, and reads every answer. An answer counts 0 for a brand it leaves out, 50 for a brand it names and 100 for a brand it recommends, and the Heralded Score is built from those. A brand named in at least three answers gets a score and a place.

How the leaderboards are measured