12.05.2011

The Romanian central bank Monday pumped 2.38 billion lei (EUR546 million) into the market in a one week repurchase agreement operation at an interest rate of 6% a year, equal to the monetary policy more

12.03.2011

The private resources of the FGDB, a fund guaranteeing bank deposits, will be used to finance the bridge-bank, while public funds will only be used in the form of a loan granted by the Finance more

12.02.2011

Romanian foreign exchange reserves fell to EUR31.74 billion in November from EUR32.2 billion a month earlier, central bank data showed Friday. more

11.28.2011

Romanian central bank Monday pumped 1.65 billion lei (EUR380 million) into the market in a one week repurchase agreement operation at an interest rate of 6% a year, equal to the monetary policy rate. more

11.25.2011

Romanian overdue private loans rose 3.13% on the month to 21.3 billion lei (EUR4.88 billion) in October, equal to 9.58% of the total lending, central bank data showed Friday. more

11.24.2011

Foreign banks are not likely to lower their exposure to Romania, as large part of the existing financing is included in the share capital of their local subsidiaries and cannot be withdrawn, a central more

11.24.2011

Romanian private lending fell 0.8% in real terms to 221.03 billion lei (EUR50.7 billion) in October from a month earlier, central bank data showed Thursday. more

11.23.2011

Romanian central bank doesn’t see the year 2015 as a fixed deadline for the euro adoption, because the date might change, depending on the country’s ability to fulfill the required criteria and on more

11.22.2011

Erste Group, UniCredit Bank Austria, and Raiffeisen Bank International-- the respective owners of Romanian lenders BCR, UniCredit Tiriac Bank and Raiffeisen Bank Romania--will only increase lending in more

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

11.15.2011

Foreign direct investment, or FDI, fell 54.1% on the year to EUR1.17 billion in the first nine months, the Romanian central bank said Tuesday. more

11.15.2011

Romania's current account deficit narrowed 10.8% to EUR3.79 billion in the first nine months, from a gap of EUR4.25 billion in the year-earlier period, due mainly to shrinking trade deficit and higher more

11.14.2011

The Romanian central bank Monday lent 1.14 billion lei (EUR262 million) to three local banks in a seven-day repurchase agreement operation at an interest rate of 6% a year, equal to the monetary more

11.08.2011

The introduction of a special bank levy in Romania is unlikely, since the “influential” central bank opposes such a measure, according to a Raiffeisen report on Central and Eastern European more

11.07.2011

Romanian overdue payments on loans worth at least 20,000 lei (around EUR4,600) rose to RON19.23 billion in September, 31% higher on the year, central bank data showed Monday. more

11.07.2011

Romania’s central bank Monday revised downward foreign direct investment data for 2010 to EUR2.22 billion, compared with EUR3.5 billion in the previous year. more

11.07.2011

The Romanian central bank Monday lent 409.5 million lei (EUR94 million) to two local banks in a seven-day repurchase agreement operation at an interest rate of 6% a year, equal to the monetary policy more

11.07.2011

Romania’s central bank has prepared the legislation enabling Romania to have a bank restructuring fund, whose resources will be possible to use to finance the measures taken to stabilize a troubled 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

11.02.2011

The central bank’s decision to cut its main interest rate by a quarter-point to 6% comes rather late and its effects on bank lending might pass unnoticed, analysts said. more

11.02.2011

Romania’s central bank Wednesday lowered its main interest rate by a quarter of a point to 6% a year, the first cut in the last year and a half, in a move to boost bank lending and energize economic more

11.01.2011

The higher capital outflows on the backdrop of the international financial turmoil are primarily responsible for Romania’s declining foreign currency reserves in October, a central bank official more

11.01.2011

Romanian foreign exchange reserves fell to EUR32.19 billion in October from EUR33.62 billion a month earlier, central bank data showed Tuesday. more

11.01.2011

Banks in Romania will require a down payment of at least 25% for mortgage loans in euro and 40% for mortgage loans in other currencies, if the client’s incomes is not expressed and indexed in the more

10.31.2011

Romanian central bank Monday lent 406.7 million lei (EUR94 million) to two local banks in a seven-day repurchase agreement operation at an interest rate of 6.25% a year, equal to the monetary policy more