12.11.2012

Romania’s Finance Minister Florin Georgescu will return to the Central Bank BNR at the end of the Governmental mandate, BNR governor Mugur Isarescu said Tuesday. more

11.26.2012

Romanian private lending fell 0.6% in real terms to 230.1 billion lei (EUR50.8 billion) in October, from RON230.8 billion a month earlier, central bank data showed Monday. more

11.23.2012

Romania’s central bank has bought five cars from UniCredit Leasing Fleet Management via an operating leasing contract worth 3.1 million lei (EUR680,000), net of VAT. more

11.12.2012

Romanian foreign direct investment, or FDI, rose 29% on the year to EUR1.1 billion in January through September, the central bank data showed Monday. more

11.12.2012

Romania's current account deficit narrowed to EUR3.67 billion in the first nine months of 2012, from EUR4.78 billion a year earlier, largely due to a lower income deficit and higher current transfer more

11.02.2012

Romania's central bank expects the annual inflation rate will stay outside the target range until the second half of 2013, governor Mugur Isarescu told a news conference Friday. more

11.02.2012

Romania’s central bank kept its key rate unchanged at 5.25% for the fifth consecutive time Friday, in line with expectations, after inflation accelerated to its fastest pace in more than two years. more

10.01.2012

Romanian foreign exchange reserves rose to EUR32.42 billion in September, from EUR30.95 billion a month earlier, central bank data showed Monday. more

09.27.2012

Romania's central bank on Thursday kept its main monetary policy rate unchanged at 5.25% a year, in line with expectations, amid higher inflationary risks due to increasing oil and food prices. more

09.27.2012

Romania’s central bank revised downward foreign direct investment data for 2011 to EUR1.8 billion, compared with EUR2.22 billion in the previous year. more

09.11.2012

Romanian foreign direct investment, or FDI, were down to EUR907 million in the first seven months, from EUR963 million in the same period of 2011, central bank data showed Tuesday. more

09.11.2012

Romania's current account deficit narrowed to EUR2.44 billion in the first seven months of 2012, from EUR3.77 billion a year earlier, largely due to a lower gap of the incomes balance and a higher more

08.07.2012

Mugur Isarescu, governor of Romanian central bank BNR, on Monday warned politicians that Romania would not only be penalized through the depreciation of the leu for the unending scandal, but also more

08.02.2012

Romania’s central bank kept its key rate unchanged at 5.25% for a third straight time Thursday, in line with expectations, as financial and economic woes in Europe, coupled with political tensions more

07.25.2012

Romanians are stifled by euro loans, cut consumption, while companies count their losses. The depreciation of the leu by 7.4% against the euro this year increases the bills of the population and of more

07.20.2012

BNR is keeping interests low and lets the leu constantly depreciate, as recommended by the International Monetary Fund. more

07.19.2012

Banks are keeping deposit interest rates high, in a bid to replace sources of external funding with liquidity from the local market, but this can lead to poor resource management, as well as to loss more

07.13.2012

Mugur Isarescu, the governor of the National Bank of Romania (BNR), on Thursday was very reluctant to comment the situation on the local political scene, which is keeping the leu under pressure and more

07.03.2012

The average monthly net salary in Romania's central bank, or BNR, was around 5,000 lei (EUR1,180), higher than the average gain in commercial banks and three times higher than the net wage in the more

06.28.2012

For the first time ever, Romania’s central bank (BNR) says financing of foreign-held banks by their parent banks is uncertain and therefore finds it has to lend them money itself. more

06.15.2012

Romanian foreign direct investment, or FDI, fell to EUR446 million in the first four months of 2012 from EUR490 million in the same period a year ago, the central bank said Friday. more

06.15.2012

Romania's current account deficit narrowed to EUR1.23 billion in the first four months from EUR1.61 billion in the same period of 2011, due mainly to the increase in the current transfers’ surplus, more

06.07.2012

The National Bank of Romania doesn’t plan on sitting idly by, but will use all the instruments at its disposal if an excessive appreciation of the US dollar might endanger the price stability and more

06.03.2012

The depreciation of the Romanian currency is mainly speculative, unlike in 2008, when capital outflows were legitimate, and the central bank will no longer transfer pressure onto the monetary market more

06.01.2012

Romanian foreign exchange reserves fell to EUR33.5 billion in May from EUR34.3 billion a month earlier, central bank data showed Friday. more