4 apr 2024

Salt Bank, the first Romanian wholly digital bank, a newly created entity in the wake of Idea Bank acquisition by Banca Transilvania, has launched its operations. more

19 feb 2024

Intesa Sanpaolo Romania, the local subsidiary of the Italian banking group of the same name, in 2023 generated net profit worth EUR7 million. more

6 feb 2024

Italian group UniCredit for 2023 reported EUR286 net profit from Romania operations, up over 44% from 2022, amid rising lending and revenues. more

1 feb 2024

France’s Société Générale Group is looking into the opportunity of selling BRD, the third largest bank in Romania and hired JP Morgan to handle it, banking market sources say. more

17 ian 2024

CEE economies, including Romania, will not suffer any fiscal and budgetary expense cutback pressures in 2024 as the year is a crucial electoral one and governments must be generous and throw money more

22 nov 2023

The significant rise in banks’ revenue along with the rise in interest rates and continued lending helped Romania’s banking system make a record net profit of more than RON10 billion (EUR2 more

9 oct 2023

PKO Bank Polski, Poland’s largest state-owned bank, with assets accounting for almost 70% of the Romanian banking system, has announced it is set to start operations in Romania in early 2024. more

28 sep 2023

CEC Bank, a lender held by the Romanian government via the Finance Ministry, climbed to 4th place in the ranking of the largest banks in Romania by assets at the end of the first half of 2023, from more

21 sep 2023

French executive François Bloch, appointed to run BRD-SocGen in 2016, is leaving his position on September 26, 2023, to pursue other opportunities inside the Société Générale Group. more

23 aug 2023

Net profit at the level of the Romanian banking system at the end of the first half of 2023 hit a record high of RON6.9 billion, up over 40% from the gain reported for 1H/2022. more

6 iun 2023

Intesa Sanpaolo Romania, the local subsidiary of Italy’s banking group by the same name, posted EUR2 million net profit in the first quarter of 2023, a report of its parent group shows. more

22 mai 2023

Net profit at the level of the Romanian banking system at the end of the first quarter of 203 hit a new record high, of almost RON3.4 billion, up around 70% from the gain reported for 1Q/2022. more

10 mai 2023

Banca de Export Import a Romaniei – EximBank SA, a bank held by Romania’s government via the Finance Ministry became Exim Banca Romaneasca on May 10, launching as a top universal bank with full more

4 mai 2023

Italian group UniCredit for the first quarter of this year reported EUR64 million net profit from Romanian operations, up around 45.3% from the consolidated gain of 1Q/2022. more

30 mar 2023

The ten largest banks by assets in Romania increased their assets at different paces in 2022, going from 5% to 56%, while the net assets of the entire banking system increased by almost 10% to a more

27 mar 2023

Banca de Export Import a Romaniei (Romania’s Export-Import Bank) - EximBank SA will become Exim Banca Romaneasca on May 10, 2023, as the change of the bank's name and logo were approved by the more

24 mar 2023

Banca Transilvania, the biggest lending institution on the Romanian market by assets, expects to generate net profit of above RON2.3 billion this year, 7% above the 2022 level, as it projects rising more

16 mar 2023

ING Bank posted net profit of RON1.06 billion in 2022, up slightly, by 3% on the 2021 figure, while revenue rose 10% to some RON2.6 billion. more

13 mar 2023

Banks in Romania granted more than RON3.3 billion worth of new loans in lei to companies in January 2023, an increase of 17.9% on December 2022 and on the year-ago month. more

10 mar 2023

OTP Bank Romania posted after tax profit of RON34.6 million in 2022, a decline of 40% on 2021, the group report published in Budapest shows. The report presents the consolidated results, in line with more

24 feb 2023

Net profit generated by the Romanian banking system at end-2022 hit a record high of RON10.2 billion, up 24.4% from the 2021 gain. more

15 feb 2023

The cash in circulation continued to rise and in December 2022 went beyond the RON101.3 billion level, a new all-time high, after a 5.4% increase from December 2021, according to central bank data. more

30 dec 2022

EximBank completed the merger by absorption with Banca Romaneasca and will enter the retail market in Romania on December 31, 2022, becoming a full-service bank. more

29 dec 2022

After 2020 and 2021 were affected by the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, the year 2022 came with new challenges, such as a war on the borders of Romania, energy crisis, inflation, rise in more

17 nov 2022

The net profit of Romania’s banking system hit a new record high at the end of the first nine months of 2022, of RON7.6 billion, up around 20% from the year-earlier period, as lending advanced by an more