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After the American vice president Kamala Harris presented at the end of last week her economic program as a candidate for the position of the president of the USA, we wonder if what is called the Simion Plan still looks like a utopia - as...

The law on the capping of interest at non-banking financial institutions and the limitation of claims requested by debt collectors, a normative act that joins the law of giving in payment, citizens have a shield that protects them against any...

The upward trend of the main indices of the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB), which started in the second half of last year, continued in June, during which our market was under the specter of dividends granted by its main companies.

The first month of summer was more hectic than usual due to the fact that, in addition to the budgetary problems faced by the Government, on June 9 we had European parliamentary and local elections, new amendments to normative acts in the field...

In 2023, Romania's economy recorded a moderation in the growth rate, to 2.1%, which however remained relatively solid from a European and regional perspective. The twin deficits remained at high levels, while the annual inflation rate evolved...

Following the crises that followed from 2019 until now and the over-indebtedness of companies, individuals, but also of states, it is vital that the mechanisms to prevent insolvency or bankruptcy work correctly and an interpretation agreed by all...

The capital market in Romania can have an important role for the reconstruction of Ukraine and the development of the Republic of Moldova, argued the participants at the 10th edition of the CFA CEE Investment Conference, an event that this year...

Social convulsions have been a constant in the first three months of the current year, with a peak in January, when almost half of the country's major cities were blocked by farmers' and transporters' protests, which lasted for three...

Political decision-makers in Bucharest continued in the last month of the first quarter of the current year to adopt decisions regarding the extension of some price capping measures and to dilute the provisions of Law 296/2023 and GEO 115/2023...

The construction sector is one of the main contributors to the creation of the Gross Domestic Product, but it is currently facing problems generated by the bureaucracy from the central and local public authorities, lending from the banking sector...

Reporter: What are your objectives in the current term of office as vice president of the Financial Supervisory Authority, responsible for the capital market?

Last year's spectacular evolution of the main shares on the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB), when the BET index increased by 32% and with dividends the advance rose to almost 40%, will not be repeated this year, according to the opinions...

Traditionally, the second month of the year should be marked by the beginning of the first parliamentary session and less by the visibility of the work carried out by the government, but the electoral year 2024 seems out of the ordinary, in view...

Last year, the governments of Ciucă and Ciolacu failed to comply with the state budget law approved in December 2022, a normative act drawn up by the PSD-PNL governing coalition and which provided for an increase in budget expenditures, but also...

The first government round within a political coalition marked the second half of last year not through the lens of exceptional results, but through the continuation of taking measures that had a negative impact on the business environment, in...

The government was focused in the 4th financial quarter to reduce the budget deficit that it faced in the middle of the year and in the 3rd quarter, so that the officials in Brussels do not block the allocation of funds for our country from the...

The incompetence of the public authorities left its full mark on the end of the year, the month of December being marked by two tragedies that show the fact that, despite the tragedies at Colectiv and Crevedia, despite the scandal of the Asylums...

Our country's economy faces a series of structural vulnerabilities, which, in the absence of appropriate measures, can contribute to the amplification of systemic risks to financial stability, at the same time affecting the ability to direct...

The market value of the Indian Stock Exchange has surpassed that of its rival in Hong Kong, becoming the seventh largest in the world, as optimism about the country's economic prospects is growing, according to CNBC.

105 years after the Great Union, we need, once again, to follow the example of our predecessors and put the best of each of us - managers, entrepreneurs, politicians, specialists in various fields of activity - at the service of an objective...

Representatives of the most important companies in our economy, state officials, diplomats, bankers, investors gathered on Tuesday evening at the BURSA Gala in an atmosphere of high elegance. Exceptional merits of some entrepreneurs were awarded,...

Representatives of the most important companies in our economy, state officials, diplomats, bankers, investors gathered on Tuesday evening at the BURSA Gala in an atmosphere of high elegance. Exceptional merits of some entrepreneurs were awarded,...

Europe is now at a critical juncture, with deglobalization, demography and decarbonization looming on the horizon, Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank (ECB), said late last week, according to CNBC.

After 15 years of activity, the Pilon II private pension funds have around 8.1 million participants, 117 billion lei accumulated, of which three quarters represent the contributions transferred into the system and one quarter (over 30 billion...

The exit from the insolvency of the Romanian state is done on the back of the business environment by means of law 296/2023 through which new fiscal measures were introduced, the participants of the conference "Austerity measures vs. the...

Turkey's central bank expects the country's annual inflation rate to approach 62% at the end of 2023, the upper end of the range it forecast in its latest report, Reuters reports.

Jurnalist: Pornim discuţia de la actualul context macroeconomic: avem dobânzi crescute, inflaţie mare, criză energetică, criză sanitară, un război la graniţă. Suntem sau nu într-o criză economică generalizată? Şi dacă da, dar şi dacă nu,...

With help from OECD, Romania has prepared a lengthy 80-page National Capital Market Development Strategy 2022-2026, which was recently published.

The Government is aiming to increase the role of women in society, respectively in entrepreneurship, and in that respect it is reviewing methods that have been successfully applied in other countries, according to Ms. Anca Dragu, Senate...

An increase in the volume of non-performing loans is one of this year's risks for the banking system, Gabriela Folcuţ, Executive Director of the Romanian Banking Association (ARB) told us. "The Balance of Non-Governmental credit evolved...

Reporter: What are the marks that 2020 has left on the entrepreneurial sector?

Christine Lagarde, the president of the ECB, talked a lot, but essentially said nothing, in the virtual conference organized by the ECB, which reaplced the Annual Sintra Forum.

The aftermath of the political dispute in July made its negative effects fully felt throughout August. Due to the political indecision regarding the quarantine law that tormented the Romanian society in the middle of summer, we faced, last month,...

Strict financial regulations are the norm in the European Union. The Covid-19 pandemic, however, is causing a change in European orthodoxy regarding capital markets. The European Commission, the executive of the European Union, decided on Friday...

The Ministry of Finance officially announced yesterday that it successfully raised USD 3.3 billion from foreign capital markets, which has led to Romania's public debt exceeding the 40% threshold in relation to GDP established by the law on...

The state of alert has left its mark both on the political scene and the economic activity carried out in June. Many of the measures passed by the Government and Parliament have been aimed at further supporting the private business community and...

The blow dealt to Italy by the health crisis comes at a time when the country's economy and finance weren't exactly the most stable. Italy's public debt amounted to over 134% of its GDP at the end of last year, according to Reuters,...

Prices are falling for things people aren't buying and rising for things that they are", US economist Robert Wenzel wrote after the release of official US inflation data.

The biggest challenge for the world right now is to find a way out of the Covid-19 pandemic, with a focus on avoiding new epidemic waves after social distancing measures are loosened, says Andre Cappon, founding president of CBM Group of New...