The most visible Romanian B2B and B2C 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

85%of answers name it

Most cited source

bcr.ro

20citations

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

Where engines disagree most

BRD

1/4engines put it in their top three

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

Brands

Rank	Brand	Heralded Score	Mentioned	Recommended	Mentioned by	Change
1#1 overall	Banca Transilvania RO	77 , range 70–83	85%	46%		First reading
2#2 overall	BCR RO	73 , range 64–79	84%	36%		First reading
3#6 overall	CEC Bank RO	46 , range 39–56	51%	16%		First reading
4#7 overall	BRD RO	40 , range 34–47	43%	8%		First reading
5#9 overall	Libra Internet Bank RO	30 , range 9–37	20%	5%	None	First reading
6#11 overall	EximBank RO	8 , range 4–30	10%	2%		First reading
–	CREDITCOOP RO	Too few answers	2%	0%		First reading
–	Nexent Bank RO	Too few answers	2%	2%		First reading
–	Patria Bank RO	Too few answers	2%	0%	None	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
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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	6
10	Withheld. Run a full Snapshot to see it.

The questions, and who wins each

Question	Language	Wins it
which banks do experts recommend in Romania	English	Banca Transilvania

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