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The European banking sector is facing a wave of consolidation, as institutions seek to strengthen their market position, expand their asset base and improve returns, Global Finance Magazine reports. The cited source shows that, with interest...

Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, and Francois Villeroy de Galhau, Governor of the National Bank of France, recently declared in Davos and Paris that a general mobilization of private savings is needed to support the...

The transaction through which the Hungarian company MVM wants to take over the assets of E.On in our country will end up on the table of the Supreme Council for National Defense, said Bogdan Chiriţoiu, president of the Competition Council,...

Rezerva Federală a SUA (Fed) a anunţat vineri că s-a retras din reţeaua globală de bănci centrale şi autorităţi de reglementare care explorează modalităţi de a supraveghea riscurile climatice în sistemul financiar, transmite Reuters.

The Parliament established following the 2020 elections ends its four-year mandate today, a period that can be characterized as one marked by major crises such as the Covid-19 pandemic, the energy crisis following the war in Ukraine, political...

Guvernatorul BNR, Mugur Isărescu, a afirmat că digitalizarea şi apariţia inteligenţei artificiale prezintă provocări noi, necunoscute acum 5-10 ani, într-un discurs susţinut cu ocazia aniversării a 33 de ani de la înfiinţarea Institutului Bancar...

In 2024, two reports were published, prepared at the request of the European Commission. The first report, coordinated by Enrico Letta, is entitled "More than a Market" and refers to the transformation of the single market into a true...

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) is considering the possibility of closing the mBridge pilot project, a cross-border payments platform that Russian President Vladimir Putin considers a solution to circumvent international sanctions...

In recent years, ecological trends and the fight against climate change have become a central topic on the global agenda, and some financial-banking institutions have decided to play an active role in influencing the lifestyle of their customers,...

Achieving a sustainable economy and reaching some targets of the Green Deal have the support of the banking system in our country, which in recent years has introduced several green credit products, even if the interest rates charged on some of...

REITs (Real Estate Investment Trusts) offer individuals access to investments in assets such as office, commercial or logistics buildings, Adrian Tănase, Director General of the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB), said yesterday during a debate on...

The national economy will register an economic growth between 1.2 and 1.8% at the end of 2024, much lower than the one announced by the Government, of 2.8%, based on the data provided by the National Strategy and Forecasting Commission , said...

The upward trend of the indices of the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB), which started in the middle of last year, stalled in the third quarter, in contrast to the evolution of most western markets, which points to internal causes for the weak...

More than 30 months after the aggression illegally launched by the Russian Federation in Ukraine, the Government and the Parliament in Bucharest still do not have the necessary legislation - with a small exception regarding the powers of the...

The correction of the indices of the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) that started in August continued in September, in contrast to the evolution of the main indices of the Western markets, which suggests the absence of internal growth vectors for...

In an unstable economic context and marked by multiple challenges, the debate on the establishment of a Sovereign Investment Fund (SIF) was recently relaunched in the public space, a topic that will be extensively analyzed in an event organized...

Norway's Sovereign Investment Fund, formally known as the Global Government Pension Fund, is the world's largest sovereign wealth fund, managing $1.7 trillion in assets at the end of August 2024, according to data on the Bank's...

Yesterday, Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu asked the representatives of the banking system in our country to support public investments, as well as the financing schemes launched by the Government to support the private sector, according to a post...

The last month of summer was marked by a series of government decisions that continued to deepen the budget deficit, which - according to the budget execution for the first seven months published by the Ministry of Finance at the end of August -...

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 capping interest on loans granted by non-banking financial institutions (IFNs) and debt collectors has, unfortunately, big, essential differences compared to the original draft, lawyer Gheorghe Piperea, current MEP, who wrote the draft...

Banca Israelului a cerut băncilor să prezinte un plan de redirecţionare a depunerilor din conturile curente către depozite, după ce băncile au încetat să plătească dobândă pe aceste conturi, potrivit presei israeliene.

The Bank of Israel has requested that banks present a plan to redirect deposits from current accounts to term deposits, after banks stopped paying interest on these accounts, according to the Israeli press. The letter sent by the Bank of Israel...

George Simion, the president of the Alliance for the Union of Romanians and candidate of this party in the presidential elections of November 24, offers houses to all the people. Simion's offer? 35,000 euros for a two-room apartment of 50-52...

The Federation of Associations of Energy Utility Companies (ACUE) requests the Energy Regulatory Authority (ANRE) to establish for the operators of natural gas distribution networks a remuneration rate for the invested capital different from that...

The budget deficit continued its decline in the second financial quarter as well, its growth being a little smoother compared to the first three months of 2024. Thus, if at the end of March the budget deficit recorded for the first quarter stood...

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...

The total value traded on the Regulated Market of the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) was around 6.1 billion lei, at the end of the first quarter of the year, up by around 136% compared to the same period of the previous year, a dynamic influenced...

The European Central Bank (ECB) will follow the services sector very closely for the next monetary policy decisions, warned the president of the institution, Christine Lagarde, in an interview granted, on Friday, to the French channel BFM...

Eurozone banks are making progress in countering climate-related risks, but more needs to be done, and the European Central Bank is ready to force lenders to act if necessary, Claudia Buch, the new president of the Supervisory Board of the...

The Russian subsidiary of the Austrian banking group Raiffeisen Bank International announced on Wednesday that payments initiated in dollars will no longer be available starting from June 10, the reason being the change in the requirements of...

The assets of mandatory private pension funds in our country will double in the next five years, so administrators will be forced to look for other investment areas outside the capital market, Radu Crăciun, the president of the Association for...

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...

The resolutions proposed by the shareholder Blue Capital for the general and extraordinary meetings of Lion Capital on April 29, respectively that half of the profit be allocated as dividends and the realization of a program to buy back 50...

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...

The budgets for this year of the companies that are part of the BET index are not just a simple accounting exercise, but a reflection of their strategies and visions in a constantly changing economic landscape, according to a report of the...

Less than half of the member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) prohibit anonymous donations for political financing, according to the data published in the report Anti-corruption and integrity -...

According to the crime index for last year published by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, a non-governmental organization based in Switzerland, with a score of 4.58 our country ranks 27th out of 44 European states,...

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...

Despite some improvements, our country still faces the vulnerability of fiscal revenues, and large budget deficits and high inflation rates, which are all above pre-pandemic levels, make the economy potentially vulnerable to shocks, the European...