UniCredit’s 2024 Annual Report Earns Gold for Europe at ARC Awards in Banking & Financial Services
Tuesday 09 September 2025
For the third consecutive year, UniCredit has been recognised as a winner in the Annual International ARC (Annual Report Competition) Awards that honor overall excellence in annual reports.
We are proud to announce that our bank’s Annual Report, titled “Setting the benchmark for excellence”, received the following accolades at the Annual International ARC (Annual Report Competition) Awards:

Gold
PDF Version of Annual Report: Banking & Financial Services - Europe
Bronze
Interactive Annual Report: Banking & Financial Services - Europe
These are significant awards, recognizing the extensive work we've done to collect written articles, videos and podcasts, photo shoots, and ad hoc interviews, which have allowed us to share invaluable stories with all our stakeholders. This has enabled us to highlight the testimonies of our communities and cultures across Europe, united by the common thread of our Values and our shared Purpose, setting the benchmark for excellence.
Commenting on the awards, Joanna Carss, Head of Group Stakeholder Engagement at UniCredit, declared: “We are proud of this achievement. 2024 was a remarkable year for UniCredit: We have successfully completed the first phase of UniCredit Unlocked as a transformed bank that delivered sixteen consecutive quarters of profitable growth, crowning our best year ever with all regions contributing, and moved to the next phase of our strategy. The report’s key objectives were to evidence how transformation has been achieved, to set the scene for UniCredit’s future strategy, and to showcase how we operate as One bank across our geographies, leveraging on our unique pan European model for the interest of all our stakeholders to build sustainable excellence and be the Bank for Europe’s future.”
The ARC Awards, established by MerComm, Inc. in 1987, were created to honor overall excellence in annual reports, and to encourage noteworthy and vital writing, as well as imaginative and original design. They are sponsored by MERCOMM, INC., the world’s only independent awards organization, founded with the mission to advance the standards of excellence in the fields of corporate communications.