ING Bank Cuts Its Growth Forecast For Romania's Economy In 2025 To 0.3%, Sees Inflation Peaking At 8% In September-October

07.17.2025
ING Bank has lowered its economic growth forecast for Romania in 2025 to 0.3% from its previous estimate of 0.8% and sees an “inflation hump” forming over the next 6-9 months, with inflation above 8% between September and October 2025 and marginally below that in December.
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Romania Pillar II Pension Funds Got Record High RON9B Contributions in Jan-May 2025
07.08.2025
In the first five months of 2025, Romania Pillar II private pension funds received contributions worth around RON9 billion, a record high, up 30%... more
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Electrica Gets EUR500M From International Markets Selling Green Bonds
07.07.2025
Electricity supplier, distributor and producer Electrica Group (EL.RO), whose majority owner is the Romanian government, raised EUR500 million from... more
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Finance Ministry Raises RON561M From Banks On July 7
07.07.2025
Romania's Finance Ministry raised RON561 million from banks on Monday (July 7), selling bonds due in 2029, at an annual average yield of 7.34%. more
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E.ON And MOL Become E-Mobility Partners
07.07.2025
E.ON Energie Romania and Hungary’s MOL Group, through MOL Romania, have entered into a partnership whereby 592 charging points in the MOL Plugee... more
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Rompetrol Opens 8th Gas Station In Sofia, Reaches 55 In Bulgaria
07.07.2025
Rompetrol Bulgaria, a subsidiary of the KMG International (Rompetrol) Group, has recently opened a new gas station in Sofia, near the international... more
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Metropolitan Life Pension Fund Now Owns More Than 5% In Antibiotice Iasi
07.07.2025
Privately managed pension fund Metropolitan Life now owns more than 5% in pharmaceutical producer Antibiotice Iasi (ATB.RO), a mark it overshot on... more
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Liberty Galati Composition Administrator Euro Insol Terminates Contract with Steel Producer
07.07.2025
Euro Insol, the composition administrator of Liberty Galati (Sidex), communicated, in a letter addressed to the company and Galati Court of Law,... more
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New Tezaur Treasury Bills Available As Of Monday, July 7
07.07.2025
Romania’s Finance Ministry on Monday, July 7, launched the seventh edition of this year’s TEZAUR Treasury bills program, with one, 3 and 5-year... more
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Three-Month ROBOR Retreats to 6.88% on July 7
07.07.2025
The three-month ROBOR index, used to calculate variable interest rates for loans in lei taken out before May 2019, as well as for companies'... more
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Statistics Institute: Romania Retail Sales Up 2.6% in Jan-May 2025 YOY
07.07.2025
Romania retail sales volume (excluding the trade with motor vehicles and motorcycles) increased in the first five months of 2025 against the... more
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Bitdefender Rakes in $435M Revenues in 2024, Up 11% YOY
07.07.2025
Bitdefender, one of the first IT companies created in Romania after the fall of communism, in 2024 neared half a billion-dollar revenues with a 20%... more
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Retailer Mega Image Earmarks EUR40-60M for Investment in 2025
07.07.2025
Retailer Mega Image has budgeted EUR40-60 million investments for 2025, in line with recent years’ sums, with the money aimed particularly at... more
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Carmistin Becomes Romania’s Largest Fodder Manufacturer
07.07.2025
Carmistin The Food Company, owned by Justin and Andra Paraschiv, has become the biggest fodder producer in Romania after taking over Provimi from... more
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MedLife CEO Mihai Marcu Sells 2 Million Shares For RON13.5M
07.04.2025
Private medical service provider MedLife (M.RO) on Friday notified the Bucharest Stock Exchange that its CEO and largest individual shareholder... more
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PwC Romania: Romania M&A Market Rises 6% In Volume And 4% In Value To Over EUR2.7B In H1, 2025
07.04.2025
The M&A market in Romania recorded 122 deals in the first half of 2025, with a cumulative value of more than EUR2.7 billion, a slight increase of... more
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Clifford Chance Advised Banca Transilvania In RON1.5B Sustainable Bond Issue
07.04.2025
A team of lawyers from the Bucharest and London offices of law firm Clifford Chance advised BT Capital Partners, Banca Comerciala Romana,... more
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France’s Carrefour Mulls Exit from CEE, Including Romania
07.04.2025
French group Carrefour, which has been seeking its direction and implicitly a sustainable business model on a steadily changing retail market for... more
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Rents Rise by 5% on Average in June 2025 YOY
07.04.2025
Rents were flat in June nationwide against May, but went up by 5% on average from June 2024, with a 9% plus in Bucharest, in line with data... more
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Moneycorp Exits Romania
07.04.2025
Moneycorp, one of the largest companies specializing in international payment and foreign exchange services, has decided to exit the Romanian market. more
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Grain Trader Transylvania Invest Enters Arrangement with Creditors
07.04.2025
Transylvania Invest, a major Romanian-held grain trader, founded by Sergiu Gorban, has entered an arrangement with creditors as part of a... more

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Survey: Romania Could Increase Its GDP By 10% Until 2050 By Boosting Savings
Romania could increase its gross domestic product (GDP) by 10% until 2050, generating an additional contribution of EUR575 billion by boosting savings and redirecting them towards lucrative investments, according to a survey conducted by McKinsey&Company in spring 2022.