05.08.2014

Romania’s exposure to Swiss-franc loans is at 4.1% of total private loans, a sensibly lower ratio compared to other European countries, an official of the central bank said Thursday. more

05.08.2014

Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta said Thursday that loan restructuring will be optional for both banks and individuals and the measure will probably be applied starting July 1, 2014. more

04.28.2014

On the shortage of foreign currency resources, restrictions imposed by the BNR and the cheaper lei loans, sales of new retail loans have almost entirely switched to the lei component. more

04.15.2014

The level of non-performing loans (NPLs) in the agricultural sector is very low, Radu Gratian Ghetea, head of Romanian state-run lender CEC Bank said Tuesday. more

04.11.2014

Romanian insolvent power producer Hidroelectrica has closed a RON120 million short-term credit line from Banca Transilvania, which was due on April 11, 2014, the company said in a press release more

04.07.2014

Lender Banca Romaneasca has earmarked EUR50 million to fund small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and half of the financing is guaranteed by the state within the government-backed program aimed more

04.07.2014

Romania’s largest lender Banca Comerciala Romana, or BCR, has extended leu-denominated consumer loans exceeding 1.5 billion lei (EUR336 million) in 2013, the bank said in a statement Monday. more

04.02.2014

Alpha Bank Romania’s chief said Wednesday bankers need stronger financial discipline principles so feasible customers are not passed over because of the “unhealthy” practices of some companies more

03.27.2014

Interest rates on leu-denominated loans are expected to continue their decline in the coming months, provided the economic fundamentals remain unchanged, Romanian central bank’s deputy governor more

02.26.2014

Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Romania can get loans from Volksbank to finance their working capital, within a total maximum ceiling of RON47.3 million, with low guarantees, under a more

02.25.2014

Romanian lender BRD Groupe Societe Generale has received a new guarantee ceiling of RON320 million from the guarantee fund for SMEs and may grant a total RON640 million in mortgage loans under the more

02.20.2014

A group of MPs from several political parties, including Chamber of Deputies speaker, submitted a proposal according to which foreign currency loans could be converted into local currency or other more

02.19.2014

Bank clients paying interests of over 7% for old loans in foreign currency should consider refinancing in local currency, given the new costs on the market, as a difference of one percentage point in more

02.17.2014

Italo Romena Bank will grant SMEs loans worth maximum EUR6.7 million via the government program guaranteeing SME loans, to finance working capital. more

02.11.2014

CEC Bank will benefit from state guarantees of up to RON260 million, allowing it to lend over RON520 million to small and medium-sized businesses seeking loans to fund their working capital, the bank more

02.04.2014

Romania’s planned fiscal measures aimed to help low- and medium-income borrowers repay their bank loans will speed up the repayment pace, but the package is not fair toward other categories of more

01.27.2014

Global private investment firm HIG Capital, based in Miami, USA, has negotiated a record deal with Volksbank to buy a package of retail non-performing loans (NPLs) valued at EUR600 million, including more

01.21.2014

Financing remains difficult even for good projects and experienced real estate developers, David Hay, Chief Executive Officer of the Romanian subsidiary of Israeli real estate developer AFI Europe, more

01.09.2014

Romanian lender Raiffeisen Bank will grant loans in lei, in the amount of EUR40 million, to small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), through the Joint European Resources for Micro to Medium more

01.06.2014

The visible decline of leu interest rates should revive the demand for loans, but the major obstacle to the market rebound remains the absorption of the huge volume of non-performing loans. more

12.27.2013

Romanian drilling company Dafora Medias (DAFR.RO) announced that it restructured all its loan and leasing contracts. more

12.17.2013

The interest rate at which banks borrow lei from the money market (reflected by the three-month Robor used as reference in leu-denominated retail loan contracts) has reached a new all-time low of 2.5% more

12.16.2013

Almost half the small and medium-sized enterprises in Romania surveyed by central bank BNR says they are not eager to take out bank loans because of too high costs. more

12.16.2013

The Credit Bureau, which collects information on consumer loans, has issued 7.8 million reports in January-September as requested by banks looking for information about their current and potential more

11.22.2013

Volksbank, one of the biggest loss-makers on the Romanian banking market, has put up for sale a bundle of non-performing retail loans worth around EUR600 million in total. The amount includes the more