04.23.2014

The European Commission approved an investment of EUR74.3 million from the European Regional Development Fund to clean up several oil contaminated sites in several counties throughout Romania, with more

04.23.2014

Romania’s largest bank BCR, a unit of Austrian Erste Group Bank AG (EBS.RO) earmarked up to RON526 million to fund small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), with half of the financing guaranteed more

04.23.2014

CEC Bank granted loans worth approximately RON2 million in the last two months via the Program on Guaranteeing Loans for Small and Medium Enterprises and is currently checking up loans worth another more

04.16.2014

Agriculture has reached its extensive growth ceiling and will direct the EUR8 billion in EU funds made available to it in 2014-2020 to intensive production and processing systems in the next seven more

04.15.2014

Romania should absorb EUR2.9 billion in EU funds this year for investments in agriculture, EUR200 million more than in 2013, Agriculture Minister Daniel Constantin said Tuesday at a conference more

04.14.2014

Mutual funds have raised 1.2 billion lei (EUR269 million) from investors in the first quarter, which was their best ever. Most money went to funds with conservative investment strategies, but more

04.09.2014

Private pension funds in Romania may invest EUR500 million on the capital market, in new public offerings, between 2014 and 2015, said Raluca Tintoiu, general manager of ING Pensii. more

04.07.2014

Romanian Agriculture Minister Daniel Constantin stated Monday that the ministry will draw EU funds worth EUR2.9 billion in 2014, adding that agriculture flourished and has great potential in the more

04.07.2014

Romania absorbed around EUR1.4 billion (32% of the total) from the EUR4.3 billion the European Union made available for its transport infrastructure during the 2007-2013 period. more

03.26.2014

Romania will have to attract EUR1.28 billion through the EU-funded operational program for Transport for 2014 and 2015, within the 2007-2013 Cohesion Fund, and the country’s roads authority CNADNR more

03.25.2014

Romania's Ministry for Information Society plans to attract EU financing of at least EUR850 million for IT&C projects in 2014-2020. more

03.21.2014

Romania could absorb this year more Eu funds than in all previous years combined, of EUR6 billion, and reach and absorption rate of around 60% in 2014 and 80% in 2015, said Marius Radu, EU fund more

03.21.2014

Romania received EU funding of EUR21.3 billion in 2007-2013 and paid EUR10.6 billion to the EU, resulting in a positive balance of EUR10.9 billion, Adrian Vasilescu, adviser to the central bank more

03.12.2014

Romania used less than one third of the EUR4.4 billion EU funds made available via the EU-funded SOP-T (Sectoral Operational Program - Transport) program for the 2007-2013 program. Another EUR3 more

03.11.2014

The combined net assets of Romanian open-end investment funds rose 3.17% to 13.98 billion lei (a little over EUR3 billion) in February, from RON13.55 billion a month earlier, data from the local more

03.07.2014

Romania’s new Cabinet wants to increase the absorption rate on European Union structural and cohesion funds by 50% to 80% by the end of 2015, according to its new governing program. more

03.05.2014

Investments of private equity funds in Romania will keep the negative trend of the past years and are expected to grow by less than 2% compared to 2013, in line with other countries in Central and more

02.24.2014

Romania’s EU fund absorption rate via the Sectoral Operational Program Increase of Economic Competiveness (POS CCE) might reach up to 60% this year, from 36% in 2013, when projects worth RON23.4 more

02.21.2014

Romania cashed Thursday over EUR830 million in European structural and cohesion funds, most of the sums going to the Sectoral Operational Program – Transport, the European Funds Ministry said in a more

02.12.2014

The combined net assets of Romanian open-end investment funds rose 4.4% to 13.55 billion lei (EUR3.02 billion) in January, from around RON13 billion a month earlier, data from the local Association of more

02.04.2014

Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta said the government wants to spend most of the European structural and cohesion funds for 2014-2020 on transport infrastructure, environment projects, urban more

01.27.2014

Private pension funds in Romania will have around EUR500 million in the next two years to invest in public offerings and corporate bonds, Raluca Tintoiu, general manager of ING Pensii, said Monday. more

01.22.2014

A total of 2.8 billion euros drew Romania last year from the European Union in non-reimbursable funds, just half the yearly target, but enough to keep the leu in check and repay some of the foreign more

01.20.2014

Romanian state-run lender EximBank said Monday it has signed financial agreements worth about EUR50 million with local company Alro Slatina (ALR.RO) to finance current operations and issue bank more

01.15.2014

Six managers made the rules on the mutual fund market in 2013, raising 3.5 billion lei (EUR775 million) from investors. In 2014, the declining interests may bring another RON4 billion in net more