05.13.2024

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and APS, a leading non-performing loan (NPL) management firm in Europe, are jointly investing in a funded participation concerning a more

09.05.2023

The non-performing loan (NPL) ratio remained below 3% in the first half of 2023, the same as in the second half of 2022, ranging between 2.6% and 2.7%, according to Ziarul Financiar (ZF) daily. more

03.16.2023

APS Group, a CEE asset manager, has bought a EUR24 million non-performing loan portfolio from a bank of Romania. more

12.31.2021

The average ratio of non-performing loans (NPL) in the Romanian banking system fell below 4% of total loans in the first ten months of 2021, Romania’s central bank data show. more

08.27.2020

Overdue bank loan repayments grew a slight 0.1% in July compared with June but dropped 8.7% on the year, to RON6.8 billion, central bank data showed. more

01.15.2020

Construction and real estate companies continue to carry the highest credit risk, despite having seen the highest decline in the non-performing loan ratio in the past year. more

02.20.2019

The non-performing loan (NPL) rate in the Romanian banking system dropped to 4.95% at the end of 2018, its lowest level in the past 12 years, central bank data showed. more

02.04.2019

Lender Patria Bank, held by investment fund Axxess Capital, sold a batch of non-performing loans (NPLs) worth a total RON502 million to companies within Polish debt collection group Kruk. more

01.25.2019

Lender Patria Bank has sold a batch of non-performing loans totaling RON331.5 million to debt collector Kruk Romania, the bank said in a statement Friday. more

11.20.2018

The non-performing loan rate in Romania's banking system stood at 5.56% at the end of the third quarter of 2018, down 15 basis points compared with the second quarter, central bank data showed more

10.17.2018

Patria Bank is looking to sell a second batch of non-performing loans after the one sold to Polish debt collection group KRUK earlier this month, according to a statement by a bank representative. more

10.04.2018

Patria Bank will sell to Kruk Group a portfolio of bad debts consisting of some 9800 non-guaranteed consumer loans granted to natural persons, with a nominal value of approximately RON245 million, as more

09.20.2018

Romania's banking sector had an average non-performing loan (NPL) rate of 5.77% at the end of July, 0.06 points higher than in June, central bank data showed. more

08.29.2018

Romanian lender Banca Transilvania sees the non-performing loan (NPL) ratio in the Romanian banking system dropping to around 5% in 2018 from nearly 6% at the end of the first half but the trend could more

08.02.2018

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03.01.2018

With transactions worth over $6 billion, Romania places first in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) in a ranking of transactions with portfolios of non-performing loans (NPLs) in 2016 and 2017, followed more

07.05.2017

After cleaning up their balance sheets of the non-performing loans that piled up during the crisis and the return to profit, Romanian banking sectors is entering a new phase when the focus will be on more

06.23.2017

CEC Bank, the sixth largest bank in Romania by assets, sold a set of non-performing consumer and credit card loans worth 541.4 million lei (EUR120 million) in gross amount, for RON94 million in 2016, more

04.21.2017

Local banks sold non-performing corporate loans at an average price of 9% of the nominal value of the loan, while the average price of retail loans was 12%, first deputy governor of Romania’s more

04.04.2017

APS Romania, the local division of the Czech debt collection group by the same name, plans to acquire at least two portfolios of non-performing loans this year, for more than EUR500 million, said more

03.01.2017

Romania ranked first in Central and Eastern Europe by the sale of non-performing loans (NPL), with completed deals worth EUR3.5 billion in 2015 and 2016, according to annual report Deloitte NPL Study. more

02.21.2017

APS Romania, the local division of the Czech debt collection group by the same name, says it has budgeted investments of at least EUR25 million in buying non-performing loans this year. more

01.17.2017

The first set of non-performing loans that BRD, the second largest lender in Romania, auctioned met with a lot of interest, all debt collectors active in this country submitting a bid, market sources more

11.24.2016

The single-digit non-performing loan ratios that seemed like a fantasy right after the crisis are becoming a reality for Romanian banks as more and more lenders showed NPL ratios of less than 10% in more

10.25.2016

As the end of the year is near, the local banks are rushing to clean up their balance sheets, which shows on the non-performing loan deal market, where three or four deals to sell about EUR1 billion more