Hungary’s Competition Office Fines K&H Bank For Misleading Advertising

  • 8 Dec 2014 8:00 AM
Hungary’s Competition Office Fines K&H Bank For Misleading Advertising
Hungary’s Competition Office (GVH) said it had fined K&H Bank 80 million forints for misleading advertising. GVH levied the fine for a month-long ad campaign of KSH’s “MIX” product early in 2014. KSH advertised a 7.80% annual return on the product – well over the market rate – but failed to make clear that the rate was paid only on the one-third of savings that were placed in a deposit.

The other two-thirds were put in a closed-end investment fund or life insurance policy.

GVH considered the scope of potential clients reached by the ads as well as two previous similar offences by the lender in the past five years as aggravating factors.

Source www.hungarymatters.hu

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