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The heady bouquet of transformation

Sándor Csányi, chairman and chief executive of OTP Bank, tells Karina Robinson that the bank’s new acquisitions will bring a wealth of opportunities.
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Wearing brown corduroys with a tweed jacket and his heart on his sleeve, Sándor Csányi, chairman and chief executive of OTP Bank, admitted his vineyards were the only part of his private business interests that he had put the family name on and which his heirs would not be able to sell.

During a tour of the 400 hectares of Csányi Pincészet Villány in the south of Hungary, on the sunny last day of an Indian summer, the 53-year-old wild-boar hunter says that reliability and quality are what he wants to produce in his wine. He has produced that in the bank he leads, which is listed on the Budapest stock market with a 93% free float.

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