06.30.2015

The loan to deposit ratio, one of the indicators of the lending potential of the banking system, reached 93% at the end of May, the highest this year, driven by the resurgence of loan sales and the more

06.23.2015

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is considering providing a loan of up to EUR15 million to Sibiu Municipality to finance key investments in the urban transport sector and related more

06.18.2015

Corporate lending recorded the highest non-performing loan ratio during the crisis, which peaked at 24% in the first half of 2014. Swiss franc and euro-denominated loans saw the highest NPL ratio of more

06.10.2015

Boosting the loan volume is not a goal in itself for banks, the important thing is the direction where the new lending is headed, which is showing the first signs that demand from customers is more

06.08.2015

Banks granted new loans worth over 15 billion lei (almost EUR3.5 billion) in January-April, more than three quarters of which leu denominated, according to central bank data. more

05.26.2015

Romania’s central bank governor said he wanted the country to borrow less from the International Monetary Fund back in 2009, but the 20 billion-euro bailout package provided enough cushion against more

05.21.2015

Romania’s leading oil and gas producer OMV Petrom (SNP.RO) contracted a multi-currency credit line of 1 billion euros from a syndicate of 17 banks, the company said Thursday. more

05.13.2015

The state treasury will lend RON40 million from privatization proceeds to energy holding CE Hunedoara, to allow it to pay back state aid granted by previous governments, which the European Commission more

05.07.2015

Garanti Bank has granted three-year EUR6 million loan to General Concrete Land Development, which aims to complete its Sunflower Grand Apartments residential project in downtown Bucharest, the bank more

04.30.2015

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) will discuss lending RON675 million (EUR152 million) to CEZ Distributie, owned by Czech utility group CEZ, for investments in its more

04.23.2015

KMG International (former Rompetrol Group) has contracted a multi-currency facility worth $360 million from lenders BCR, UniCredit Tiriac Bank, Raiffeisen and ING Bank to fund current operations of more

04.21.2015

Romanian oil and natural gas company OMV Petrom (SNP.RO) has started talks with local and international banks to refinance a credit line worth EUR930 million, contracted back in 2011, the company said more

04.20.2015

Agricover Credit, the lending division of Agricover group, will borrow RON100 million (over EUR22 million) from EximBank to fund agriculture projects, after signing a EUR10 million seven-year loan more

04.17.2015

Banks need to be more flexible with the small entrepreneurs and make loans cheaper, because they are two or three times more expensive than in other European countries Romania is in direct competition more

04.06.2015

The five largest local banks held 54% of the assets, loans and deposits of the banking system at the end of last year. more

04.02.2015

BCR, the largest bank in Romania, is getting ready to sell non-performing loans of EUR1 billion to EUR1.5 billion, the highest amount so far, a move that is bound to draw a lot of attention. more

04.01.2015

Agricover Credit, the lending division of Agricover group, got a loan worth EUR10 million for a 7-year period from International Investment Bank (IIB), that will be lent to farmers for working capital more

03.31.2015

Romanian energy producer Vest Energo Bucharest plans to borrow EUR17 million to develop new cogeneration projects and to buy an office building in Bucharest. more

03.30.2015

Romanian milling and bakery company GoodMills Romania (former Titan) will borrow EUR16 million from lender BRD - Groupe Societe Generale and estimates a 4.7% turnover growth and operating profit for more

03.25.2015

The European Investment Bank (EIB) granted a loan of EUR22.6 million to the municipality of Oradea to support investments related to the local road network and tourism. more

03.18.2015

Bancpost has granted the Timisoara Airport a line of credit of EUR2 million for a three-year period, to finance working capital, the bank said Wednesday. more

03.13.2015

Loans granted directly by shareholders or partners to companies – common practice especially with small and medium-sized businesses, as well as with foreign-held companies, rose during the crisis to more

03.12.2015

The Finance Ministry repaid the first EUR1.5 billion tranche of the loan it took from the European Commission in 2009. The amount equals half of this year’s projected budget deficit. more

03.12.2015

Energomontaj, a company specializing in installation and maintenance services for power plants, got a syndicated RON145 million loan from a BRD-led corsortium including insurers Allianz Tiriac more

02.25.2015

Over the last six years, the foreign banks that control 90% of Romania’s banking system have withdrawn EUR10 billion worth of lines of credit extended to their local subsidiaries during the economic more