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

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 By engine Mentioned by Change
= 11 Alpha Bank România GR 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 TR 11 , range 4–20 6% 0% First reading
– Alior PL Too few answers 1% 0% 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 IT 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
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13 wikipedia.org Community 9.1% 3 of 4 3 0
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15 fidulink.com Vendor site 9.1% 2 of 4 1 0
16 conso.ro Review site 6.8% 2 of 4 6 0
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19 elevatepay.co Vendor site 5.7% 2 of 4 2 0
20 goldring.ro Vendor site 5.7% 2 of 4 1 0

The questions, and who wins each

QuestionLanguageWins it
which banks do experts recommend in Romania English Banca Transilvania and ING Bank România, tied

Each engine's top three

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