11.21.2011

Romanian lenders refused to pay promissory notes, checks and notes of exchange amounting to 605.17 million lei (EUR138.7 million) in October, up 36.6% on the month, central bank data showed Monday. more

11.18.2011

Romanian banks reported a combined net loss of 860 million lei (roughly EUR200 million) in the third quarter, versus a profit of RON95.4 million a quarter earlier, banking sources said Friday. more

11.16.2011

Banca Centrala Cooperatista Creditcoop (Central Cooperative Bank Creditcoop), with its 47 subordinated cooperative banks, hopes to end the year with a gross profit of 12 million lei and overall assets more

11.09.2011

The National Bank monitors banks’ liquidity and solvency and has so far noticed no net capital outflows, but does not rule out such moves occurring in the future. more

11.08.2011

Bankers are now fighting more intensely than ever to attract resources in euros from clients, and interests of more than 4% a year are no longer the exception, considering that banks are forced to more

11.07.2011

Romania’s flexible agreement with the parent banks of the top nine local lenders could pose some risks pertaining to capital levels, but the central bank has the means to monitor as well as control more

11.04.2011

The ranking of the largest financial leasing companies did not radically change in the first half of this year, as the same companies dominated a market that is only now showing the first signs of more

11.03.2011

September came with cheaper retail loans in euro, that is exactly those loans targeted by the central bank (BNR) restrictions, while loans in lei became 0.5% more expensive. more

10.28.2011

Nine of the ten foreign banks that control local top ten lenders need billions of euros to recapitalize. Out of the ten-hour talks conducted by the leaders of the euro zone on Wednesday night, Romania more

10.27.2011

Romania’s subsidized housing program, along housing banks have helped deflate the small bubble in the mortgage market, while bringing more stability to the system, central bank governor Mugur more

10.27.2011

The risk of foreign banks starting to repatriate capital has alarmed the authorities so much that President Traian Basescu, the Finance Ministry and the National Bank (BNR) are talking in unison about more

10.27.2011

Romania is the fourth most vulnerable country if euro zone banks decide to cut their exposure, with debts to such lenders amounting to around 38% of GDP, according to an analysis of UK’s Barclays more

10.27.2011

Eastern European countries need to encourage local banks, and where there aren’t any, they may have to build them from scratch, in order to have an alternative to the financing offered by foreign more

10.26.2011

Romania might find itself in a difficult situation if foreign banks were to reduce their support to the local subsidiaries, President Traian Basescu said Wednesday. more

10.26.2011

Greek banks continued to reduce their exposure to Romania in the second quarter of this year, while French and Austrian banks increased their financing, according to data published by the Bank for more

10.25.2011

Threatened by a new wave of recession, Romania is faced with the real danger of foreign banks halting financing; the leaders of the euro zone should find a solution resembling the former Vienna more

10.25.2011

Turmoil on the international financial market has caught local banks off-guard, after they grew too reliant on funding from parent banks and as such let the imbalance between loans granted and more

10.20.2011

European banks’ exposure to Romania rose 22% to $117.7 billion at the end of June, from $96.4 billion in the year-earlier period, data from the Bank for International Settlements showed Thursday. more

10.20.2011

Romanian lenders refused to pay promissory notes, checks and notes of exchange amounting to 443 million lei (EUR102.3 million) in September, down 23.7% on the month, central bank data showed Thursday. more

10.20.2011

Lenders in Romania should focus more on bancassurance, that may generate additional revenues and eliminate deposit-loan fluctuations, Theodor Alexandrescu, general manager of Alico Asigurari de Viata, more

10.20.2011

Companies increased their deposits in foreign currency held in foreign bank branches by the equivalent of 2.8 billion lei (some EUR660 million) in the third quarter, while the institutions operating more

10.19.2011

Inflation continued to decline fast in the last few months, going below 4%, yet many banks continue to pay over 7% yearly interests to keep their clients and compensate for the lesser support from more

10.17.2011

Romanian banking profitability is likely to continue its decline through 2011, due to increasingly high costs, while the small, less specialized banks could even shut their doors, the head of more

10.17.2011

Foreign banks contributed 850 million lei (EUR200 million) to the local subsidiaries’ capital and announced up to EUR360 million capital injections, to be done in part by the end of 2011. This is to more

10.16.2011

Romanian banks booked provisions worth 739 million lei (EUR175 million) in July, up 16% from a month earlier, a sign that downside pressure on loan portfolio remains high and economic recovery is more