Results 401 - 425 from 462 for "banks"
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One Fifth Of Loans In Bistrita And Galati Are Overdue
07.27.2011
Almost one fifth of loans taken out by individuals and by companies in counties such as Bistrita, Galati and Ialomita are overdue, double the national average. more
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Bank Payment Refusals Fall To RON501M In June
07.25.2011
Romanian lenders refused to pay promissory notes, checks and notes of exchange amounting to 500.9 million lei (EUR117.7 million) in June, down 0.5% on the month, central bank data showed Monday. more
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Fitch: Romanian NPLs Poised To Peak By Year-End
07.22.2011
Romanian non-performing loans are likely to peak to around 14% to 16% of total loans by year-end, from 13% of total in April, a report from Fitch Ratings showed Thursday. more
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Popp, Impact: Had Banks Been Willing To Lend, They Would Have Eased Up Terms
07.22.2011
Dan Ioan Popp, founder and main shareholder in real estate developer Impact Bucuresti (IMP.RO), said apartment sales are stalling and the market has not thawed up yet, with the reasons for this being more
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BNR: Banking System Net Profit Falls To RON95M In Q2
07.19.2011
Romanian banks reported combined net profit of 95.4 million lei (EUR22.4 million) in the second quarter, down from RON313 million a quarter earlier, central bank data showed Tuesday. more
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Swiss Franc Might Climb To RON3.9
07.15.2011
Those who now regret that they took out a loan in Swiss francs, as the franc is now 75% stronger against the leu compared with 2007-2008, at around RON3.7, should prepare for worse. Foreign analysts more
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Greek Banks Raise Deposit Interests, While Big Banks Are Lowering Them
07.11.2011
The thirst for liquidity of small and mid-sized banks has led to the re-emergence on the market of offers of leu-denominated deposits with interests of 7.5% to 7.75% a year, even though the major more
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Overdue Swiss Franc Loans Double In One Year
07.11.2011
With the Swiss franc at an all-time high against the leu, bankers can do nothing but sit and watch the overdue loans rise fast. After the franc has gone up 60% against the leu since the beginning of more
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Bankers Keep Money With BNR At 2.25% Interest, While Private Lending Declines
07.07.2011
Bankers placed an average of 2 billion lei (equivalent to half a billion euros) in each working day in June in the overnight deposit facility of the central bank (BNR), for which they get an interest more
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Raiffeisen: Banking Sector’s Retail Network Is No Longer Justified
07.06.2011
An increasingly pressing question for the banking sector is the fate of the over 6,000 branches still open despite the very low demand for loans, and consolidation will be inevitable, says Steven van more
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Finance Ministry To Keep Banks’ Money Only If They Agree To Longer Maturities
07.05.2011
The Finance Ministry paradoxically has the upper hand over bankers because at the end of July it is in banks’ best interest not to be stuck with the EUR2.4 billion that the state has to repay them more
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Payment Spike For Finance Ministry: Banks Are Due To Receive EUR2.6B
07.04.2011
The Finance Ministry will face public debt payment spike of about EUR2.6 billion this month because a EUR1.2 billion club loan taken out from local banks in 2009 matures on July 23, and a more
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Major Foreign Banks Still At 97% Of Their March 2009 Romanian Exposure Level
07.04.2011
The nine largest foreign banking groups that undertook to maintain support for their subsidiaries in Romania as part of the “Vienna initiative” in May 2009 are now at 97% of their aggregate more
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Good News For Bankers: Private Lending Is Thawing
06.29.2011
May brought the fastest monthly advance of private lending in the past year, 1.5%, showing that bankers are successful in finding more clients to sell loans to. more
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Romanian President Thanks Local Greek-Owned Banks For "Proper" Conduct
06.28.2011
Romanian President Traian Basescu said Tuesday, after a talk with Greek President Karolos Papoulias, that the seven Greek banks on the Romanian market are operating "properly," for which he more
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State-Owned Bank Heads' Salaries Come To Light
06.27.2011
One of the best-kept secrets, the salaries of state-owned bank managers, has been revealed with the publication of the personal financial statements not by the banks where they work, but by the more
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Companies Deposit Their Money With Foreign Banks’ Branches
06.27.2011
Companies increased their foreign currency-denominated deposits with foreign banks’ branches by 1.6 billion lei (EUR0.38 billion) in the first quarter, while most lenders operating with Romanian more
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JP Morgan: BNR Has The Power To Save Greek Banks. It Won't Be Necessary, Says BNR
06.24.2011
Romania's banking system would still be standing even in a worst-case scenario, where Greek banks were so seriously crippled by the financial crisis that they would be forced to give up their foreign more
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After Monday’s Peak, The Euro Lost Ground
06.22.2011
The exchange rate fluctuations over the past week, with the leu losing over 2% against the euro, broke the relative stability to which bankers, as well as clients with foreign currency loans, were more
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Greek Banks Offer High Interests On Deposits Again
06.21.2011
Greek-controlled banks have returned with generous offers for deposits, paying interests of over 8% a year on leu-denominated deposits and of 4% a year on euro deposits. This is the first visible sign more
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Bankers On BNR's New Restrictions: We Need Low Interests On Leu Loans, Not Regulations
06.20.2011
The current anomalies of the retail lending market have been generated by regulations imposed by the National Bank of Romania, or BNR, at some point, as solutions to certain situations, but the new more
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BNR: Bank Payment Refusals Rise To RON504M In May
06.20.2011
Romanian lenders refused to pay promissory notes, checks and notes of exchange amounting to 503.6 million lei (EUR119 million) in May, up 7.15% on the month, central bank data showed Monday. more
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Foreign Currency Borrowers - From Yesterday's Dream To Today's Nightmare
06.20.2011
Clients with high incomes, wooed by bankers during the boom years with high foreign currency loans and installments as high as three quarters of their salaries at times, are now giving bankers the more
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Greek Banks Invested Over EUR1B In Romanian Real Estate
06.17.2011
The Greek banks on the local market--Bancpost, Alpha, Piraeus and Banca Romaneasca--have fed at least EUR1 billion into some of the most important real state projects carried out in Romania over the more
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Georgescu: BNR Gets Weekly Reports From Greek Subsidiaries
06.16.2011
The Romanian central bank (BNR) is keeping a close eye on Greek subsidiaries and has already taken preventive measures against potential financial slippages, first deputy governor Florin Georgescu more