The most visible banks on Google AI Overviews in Romania, October 2026

October 2026 · 11 questions asked from Romania in Romanian and English · Google AI Overviews · 22 answers read

Industry Asked from Brands from Audience Engine Month

Leader

Banca Transilvania

86%of answers name it

Most cited source

zf.ro

7citations

From Google AI Overviews

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Brands

Rank	Brand	Heralded Score	Mentioned	Recommended	Change
1	Banca Transilvania RO	75 , range 55–84	86%	32%	First reading
2	ING Bank România RO	73 , range 53–82	86%	27%	First reading
3	BCR RO	70 , range 51–79	91%	14%	First reading
4	CEC Bank RO	41 , range 30–63	45%	9%	First reading
5	Raiffeisen Bank RO	41 , range 29–64	41%	14%	First reading
= 6	Libra Internet Bank RO	37 , range 25–57	36%	9%	First reading
= 6	UniCredit Bank RO	37 , range 26–55	41%	5%	First reading
8	BRD RO	31 , range 20–46	32%	0%	First reading
= 9	Alpha Bank România RO	21 , range 12–40	18%	0%	First reading
= 9	OTP Bank HU	21 , range 12–40	18%	0%	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	zf.ro	Media	22.7%	1 of 4	3	14
2	Withheld. Run a full Snapshot to see it.
3	Withheld. Run a full Snapshot to see it.
4	bancatransilvania.ro	Brand site	18.2%	1 of 4	5	2
5	fidulink.com	Vendor site	22.7%	1 of 4	1	10
6	Withheld. Run a full Snapshot to see it.
7	Withheld. Run a full Snapshot to see it.
8	Withheld. Run a full Snapshot to see it.
9	conso.ro	Review site	18.2%	1 of 4	4	10
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	No brand recommended
ce bănci recomandați	Romanian	Banca Transilvania, BCR, ING Bank România and Raiffeisen Bank, tied
top bănci în România	Romanian	No brand recommended
cum aleg bănci	Romanian	No brand recommended
la ce să mă uit când aleg bănci	Romanian	No brand recommended
bănci pentru firme mici	Romanian	CEC Bank
care bănci sunt cele mai de încredere	Romanian	No brand recommended
best banks in Romania	English	Banca Transilvania
how to choose banks in Romania	English	ING Bank România and Revolut, tied
banks with the best customer service in Romania	English	Banca Transilvania and ING Bank România, tied

Each engine's top three

Google AI Overviews

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.

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