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The main products and solutions offered to customers include:<br />

� Cash Management and eBanking<br />

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>> Report on Operations<br />

Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB)<br />

The UniCredit Group has strengthened substantial experience in providing Cash Management and<br />

eBanking solutions. Using an approach tailored to the needs of customers, GTB specialists provide<br />

support for the entire Financial Value Chain. Product offerings range from analyzing cash and payment<br />

flow management processes to the daily management of transactions using the eBanking <strong>pl</strong>atform,<br />

and to the most efficient solutions for the global management of cash positions for multinational<br />

groups, with a particular focus on countries in Central and Eastern Europe, where the Group has a<br />

local presence and provides the same high quality of service.<br />

The payment services area represents over 60% of overall revenues of UniCredit's Transaction<br />

Banking unit including customer's sight deposits. This will make it possible to round out product<br />

offerings and the product catalogue and to maximize the efficiency of a single pricing management<br />

area for all products related to treasury and payment services.<br />

Performance for 2009 in this area was affected by interest rate movements, which, compared to the<br />

past year, reduced the income generated from value days, but left the market share of commissions<br />

largely unchanged despite the global decline in the volume and number of transactions experienced<br />

throughout the market due to the crisis situation.<br />

� Trade Finance & Services and Sup<strong>pl</strong>y Chain Management<br />

UniCredit's products in this business area take advantage of the broad, direct coverage of the markets<br />

in which the Group operates with the support of a network of over 4,000 correspondent banks, making<br />

it possible to broaden the coverage area to over 50 countries throughout the world. This allows<br />

customers of the UniCredit Group to support their range of products in different countries with the<br />

broad selection of banking services available.<br />

Trade finance products and services offered to Corporate customers range from more traditional<br />

letters of credit, guarantees and documentary credits and forfaiting to highly competitive Global Trade<br />

Management solutions that support the customer along the entire "sup<strong>pl</strong>y chain": Pre-export, postshipment<br />

and inventory finance are just a few exam<strong>pl</strong>es of solutions offered to customers.<br />

This business area represents about 25% of the revenues of UniCredit's Transaction Banking area,<br />

and in 2009 it was able to largely maintain steady performance compared to the previous year due to<br />

considerable pricing adjustments for customers that more than offset the reduction in the volume and<br />

number of transactions resulting from the negative import/export situation. On the other hand, there<br />

was an increase in guarantee volume and commissions and commissions from forfaiting throughout<br />

2009.<br />

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As dictated by its strategy, effective 1 January 2009, UniCredit Group's Leasing Business Line com<strong>pl</strong>eted<br />

the reorganization of Italian operations through the business combination of Locat S.p.A. with UniCredit<br />

Global Leasing S.p.A.<br />

In keeping with the Group's recent reorganization, the Group continued its commitment to maximize<br />

cooperation with banks in individual countries, including through the modification and rationalization of<br />

distribution models, which are increasingly focused on multi<strong>pl</strong>e channels in order to make the best use of<br />

synergies within the Group and increase the effectiveness and efficiency of the sales force.<br />

In an effort to strengthen the leasing business and the Group's identity, the rebranding of companies in<br />

the European network was also com<strong>pl</strong>eted.

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