Results 426 - 450 from 462 for "banks"
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Banks Extend Promotional Lending Offers Over Summer
06.16.2011
Banks are toughening the fight over loan refinancing, the only segment that seems to have a growth potential amid lingering market uncertainty. Back in the spring, however, they said this more
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BCR: Banks Need To Go Deeper Into Personalized Pricing To Revive Retail Line
06.15.2011
Competition on the retail segment is tightening as consumer sentiment improves and banks need to better divide their clients into segments and slash costs to be able to gain new business, believes more
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May Volatility Fails To Revive Forex Market Transactions
06.14.2011
The forex market did not go much past the EUR35 billion level in traded volume in May either, after the market had hovered around this value in the past four months, despite the higher leu volatility. more
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“First Home” Remains An Option Only For Clients Who Cannot Afford A Higher Down Payment
06.14.2011
“First Home” state-guaranteed mortgage loans remain an option only for clients who cannot afford to pay a 10% or 15% down-payment on the value of the purchase, since there is almost no price more
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Greek-Owned Banks Are Solid - BNR Deputy Governor
06.10.2011
Romanian banks with Greek shareholders are solid and they can cope with the Greek crisis, which makes them attractive for investors, but the parent companies aren’t showing any intention to sell the more
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Bankers Left RON1.8B In BNR Coffers Each Day In May
06.10.2011
Bankers left 1.8 billion lei (EUR440 million) at the central bank BNR on each working day of May using the overnight deposit facility, to get rid of excess liquidity, as they did not manage to sell more
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Loan Provisions Jumped By EUR200M In April, Equaling First Quarter Growth
06.10.2011
The loan provisions set up by banks posted another increase in April, leaping by around EUR200 million from March, after a four-month period when they seemed to have stabilized. The April jump is more
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Croitoru, BNR: Banks Highly Selective In Lending To State-Owned Companies
06.09.2011
State-owned companies behave themselves when it comes to paying back bank loans, with overdue loans accounting for merely 0.1% of the total. This, however, is because the banks impose strict more
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Vasilescu, BNR: Banks Aren't Leaving, Shareholders Might
06.06.2011
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Ambient: Insolvency Was An Option, But We Didn't Take It
06.06.2011
Ambient Sibiu, one of the biggest Romanian businesses in retail and distribution of construction materials, even considered insolvency following the collapse of sales and the losses it posted in 2009, more
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Housing Savings And Loan System Still Almost Entirely Focused On Deposits
06.06.2011
Six years after its introduction, the housing savings and loan system remains a concept almost entirely focused on attracting deposits, while the funding that goes back into the economy remains more
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Moody’s: Greek Banks Could Sell Romanian Business If Crisis Worsens
06.05.2011
Greek lenders are unlikely to withdraw substantial capital from their Romanian subsidiaries over the coming period, but a sovereign crisis at home could prompt a sale of international businesses, more
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Treasury Pressures Banks To Borrow On Longer-Term In Lei
05.31.2011
The Treasury is seeking to borrow on the longer term in lei in June, breaking with the tradition of putting up for sale six-month certificates, one of the most sought-after investments. more
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Crisis Fallout In Banking: Four Foreign Groups Want To Sell Their Romania Operations
05.31.2011
Four banks operating in Romania, one accounting for over 5% of the market, are waiting for investors to buy them in 2012-2013 at the latest, according to the official announcements made by the current more
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BNR Keeps An Eye On Greek-Owned Banks, No Help Needed - Supervisory Chief
05.30.2011
Greek-held local banks are not affected by the problems faced by their shareholders in their countries of origin, where customers are moving their deposits abroad, and they have sufficient liquidity, more
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Past Due Loans Up To 15% In Economically Weak Counties
05.30.2011
A rising number of clients are having trouble repaying their loans, so that overdue installments have already climbed to 14-15% of overall funding released by banks in less economically developed more
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If Necessary, BNR Could Use Greek Banks' Properties As Loan Guarantees
05.27.2011
The Romanian central bank, or BNR, has tools to intervene if crisis scenarios prompted by the situation in Greece become a reality on the Romanian banking market, starting from the bilateral repo of more
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Georgescu, BNR: Greek Lenders Have Backup Plans For Unforeseeable Situations
05.25.2011
Romanian subsidiaries of Greek banks benefit from “comfortable” solvency and liquidity levels and they have backup plans to deal with possible unforeseeable situations, a central bank official more
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BNR Supervisory Head Says No Withdrawals From Greek Banks
05.25.2011
Greek banks, which control 17% of Romanian banking assets, have not withdrawn financing lines from local subsidiaries ahead of time so far, central bank officials said. more
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Promotional Offers Fail To Thaw Consumer Loans In April
05.24.2011
The wave of promotional offers for consumer loans that bankers brought to the market this spring has failed to persuade clients to borrow more, with sales continuing to be below the volume of loan more
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Bankers Teach Clients To Borrow In Lei By Making FX Loans More Expensive
05.23.2011
Bankers have radically changed consumer loan prices after the shock of the leu depreciation of 2008-2009, which reminded them the foreign-exchange risk is not just in books, and at present more
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Banks Slow Down Restructuring Process
05.23.2011
Expecting the economy to recover, bankers have slowed down even more the restructuring of their territorial networks and number of employees, while the average salary reported by the central bank more
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BNR: Bank Payment Refusals Hit 32-Month Low In April
05.20.2011
Romanian lenders refused to pay promissory notes, checks and notes of exchange amounting to 470 million lei (EUR114.8 million) in April, the lowest level since September 2008, central bank data showed more
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Basescu: No Further Bank Taxes In Sight
05.19.2011
Romanian President Traian Basescu Thursday said the government doesn’t plan to increase banking taxes. more
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Banks Continue To Borrow From Foreign Sources, But Shift To Long Maturities
05.19.2011
Banks continued to borrow from abroad in the first quarter, as the savings capacity of local companies and households is diminishing, but the trend is to switch from shorter maturities to longer ones. more