Reporter
Ciprian Botea
- Fields
- Banks-Insurance, Capital Market, Real Estate
- Writing for ZF since
- 2011
- Articles
- 114
Insurers Vie For 750,000 Clients Who Signed Six-Month Auto Liability Policies In Winter
Around 750,000 car owners are preparing to renew next month the auto liability insurance policies (RCA) they signed for a six-month period during the winter campaign, so that many insurers a...
Domestic Insurers Not Afraid Foreigners Will Take Their Place On The Market
Major insurers say the local industry is not quite appealing to foreigners at this moment given the negative figures it has recorded over recent years, even though insurance regulator CSA ha...
Cristian Constantinescu Negotiates Sale Of His Stake In Allianz-Tiriac With Ion Tiriac
Cristian Constantinescu, one of the most respected insurance experts, endorsed by the ruling Democratic Liberal Party for the position of chairman of insurance regulator CSA this autumn, is...
Mandatory Private Pension Funds' Deposits Climb To EUR86M In May
Bank deposits of mandatory private pension funds (Pillar II) went up 61% in the last two months, to 367 million lei (EUR86 million) at the end of May, with fund managers preferring to place...
Parliament To Decide Who Gets EUR2B Job Today
The Parliament has a session scheduled for 4 pm today during which it will hear the future management of the Insurance Supervisory Commission (CSA), the institution regulating a EUR2 billion...
Foreign Currency Borrowers - From Yesterday's Dream To Today's Nightmare
Clients with high incomes, wooed by bankers during the boom years with high foreign currency loans and installments as high as three quarters of their salaries at times, are now giving banke...
Banks Extend Promotional Lending Offers Over Summer
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 “w...
BCR: Banks Need To Go Deeper Into Personalized Pricing To Revive Retail Line
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, be...
Life Insurers Have Moderate Expectations: 5% Market Growth
Romanian life insurance companies’ share could go up to 22% of the total insurance market in 2011. This is still lower than in neighboring countries.
“First Home” Remains An Option Only For Clients Who Cannot Afford A Higher Down Payment
“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...
BNR Survey: Consumers Will Find It Easier To Take Out Loans This Summer
Individual clients could borrow more easily from banks this summer because lenders are set to ease access to both consumer and real estate loans, according to a survey conducted by the Natio...
General Insurance Not Picking Up After Q1 Fall
General insurers’ turnover is likely to slide by 5-10% this year, as April and May did not bring a sales rebound either, companies say.