07.15.2020

The turning point of the pandemic crisis has passed and bankers remain cautiously optimistic about economic recovery, willing to grant loans and take calculated risks. The banking system expects to more

07.04.2019

The turmoil on the local banking market has lessened, and bankers are optimistic about its future trend and expect growth in business, lower interests and inflation and a stability of the leu against more

07.03.2019

The bank of the future will probably be a mix of traditional and digital, the face-to-face interaction of bankers with customers will go hand in hand with artificial intelligence. Competition with more

03.20.2019

Technology is starting to have a significant role in the auto and logistics industries as artificial intelligence is beginning to change how cars are sold and how the warehouses of the future will be more

02.21.2019

“We want to invest but we want to understand the market we invest in,” Christina Verchere, CEO of OMV Petrom said at the ZF Power Summit 2019. more

02.20.2019

Some of the largest actors in the energy sector say they will continue to invest, though more cautiously, expecting the Emergency Ordinance 114 on taxation changes to be amended soon. more

09.26.2018

Patient access to care can be improved by redistribution of the money in the system in line with actual needs, but we must also find solutions to make allocation efficient, said the speakers attending more

07.06.2018

The lending model of the banks in Romania, which focuses on retail and real estate, limits “healthy, durable and balanced” growth of lending, considering all the signs pointing towards an more

07.05.2018

Too complicated flows of operations, excessive red tape, superficial approach of potential customers, are the main weaknesses of the local banks, the participants to the first day of the ZF Bankers more

02.21.2018

The Romanian government could collect EUR2.8 billion royalties over twenty years from the natural gas drilled in the Black Sea and natural gas production is expected to double by 2025, when the more

02.20.2018

Investments are the keyword on the energy market this year and companies in the sector are ready to bring new gas and electricity generation facilities online. more

02.22.2017

Everyone wants the government to give the market free rein but no investment in energy generation gets made without the government getting involved. The market wants long-term bilateral contracts to more

02.21.2017

The time of big projects has passed; the changes that come with the digitalization of the energy sector make it impossible to freeze significant amounts of money into facilities that will take more more

02.24.2016

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02.23.2016

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02.22.2016

KMG International (former Rompetrol Group), the second largest player on the local oil market, will open 15 new gas stations in Romania this year. more

09.23.2015

The decline in drug prices, the constant increase in the clawback tax and the lack of transparency about how it is managed are affecting the pharmaceutical market in Romania. more

06.10.2015

Boosting the loan volume is not a goal in itself for banks, the important thing is the direction where the new lending is headed, which is showing the first signs that demand from customers is more

06.09.2015

Bancpost has completed the reorganization process and expects positive business results in the upcoming years, as the market follows an upward trend, George Georgakopoulos, Bancpost CEO, told ZF more

06.09.2015

Banks will have to get used to narrow interest spreads, now that loans have become significantly cheaper, which means they will have to do something about costs and one of the main solutions to adjust more

05.26.2015

The construction sector valued at about EUR9 billion showed the first signs of a rebound early this year, but companies in the industry say it is too early to talk about a sustainable recovery. This more

04.21.2015

Online commerce, financial, health and wellness services are avenues still insufficiently explored by Romanian application developers, but they are the most attractive areas for those who have the more

03.18.2015

Online stores are putting more and more pressure on the logistics companies and the way they operate. Besides regular transportation, storage and delivery services, customers will want innovations more

02.24.2015

Executives of utility companies say they are reluctant to continue to invest in Romania after two legislative changes in two years that shook their confidence in the long-term profitability of the more

02.23.2015

Romania should close down all unprofitable energy producers by 2018, but it will be difficult for Romanian authorities to convince EU that they are not trying to elude the rules, as they have low more