Senior Editor
Razvan Voican
- Fields
- Banks-Insurance, Macroeconomics, Capital Market
- Writing for ZF since
- 2011
- Articles
- 77
Cristian Sporis Confirmed Executive Vice-President Of Raiffeisen Bank Corporate Division
Cristian Sporis has officially become one of the youngest senior managers in a large bank in Romania after the central bank authorized his appointment as executive vice-president of Raiffeis...
Treasury Chief Says New Debt Management Plan To Cap Annual Cost Of Public Debt Service
Updating Romania’s public debt management strategy, with an emphasis on limiting the annual rates and interests as share of the gross domestic product, stimulating authorized primary dealers...
Erste’s Head Of Risk Says Clean-Up Of BCR’s Loan Portfolio Will Continue
Austria’s Erste has finished cleaning up its loan portfolio in Hungary but the process continues in Romania with BCR, where the group plans to raise the degree of coverage of non-performing...
Volksbank Austria Wants To Sell Volksbank Romania By 2015
Volksbank Austria will sell its 51% stake in the vehicle that controls Volksbank Romania “under the best terms and as soon as possible,” according to the set of conditions part of the group’...
Deposit Interest Rates In Lei And Euro Tend To Even Out
Local banks’ hunger for euros combined with the cash injections of the Romanian central bank (BNR) have led to a spectacular situation on the banking market: interest rates on euro deposits...
BRD Starts Fight Over Market Share
BRD-SocGen, the second largest bank on the local market by assets and the best profit maker, will drop the strategy used in the past two years when it protected profitability at all costs, a...
Eurozone Debt Crisis, All-time High Exports Lift Forex Market
With two months - October and November - in which the volume of transactions exceeded the EUR40 billion mark, the interbank forex market did not match the all-time record hit in October 2008...
Raiffeisen’s van Groningen Stays For Another Term
Dutch-born Steven van Groningen, who has been president and chief executive officer of Raiffeisen Bank Romania since 2002, has negotiated a new term at the helm of Raiffeisen's local subsidi...
Finance Ministry Has More Than EUR12B To Roll Over In 2012
A EUR700 million eurobond, almost EUR800 million worth of bonds issued on the domestic market, as well as the first larger installment on the giant loan from the International Monetary Fund...
Danila, BNR: We Can No Longer Put Off Building A Strategic Bank
Romania is facing a strong credit crisis, as well as prospects of banks that are part of foreign groups limiting their funding even further, so it has no excuses for postponing the construct...
Dumitru, Raiffeisen: We Need Policies To Boost Domestic Saving. Growth Potential Reaches RON18B
Romania needs public policies that would enhance domestic saving if it wants to benefit from additional liquidity estimated at around 17 to 18 billion lei (approximately EUR4 billion), said...
What More Can Romania Do To Drive Country Risk Premium Down?
Romania has a 2012 budget draft in the Parliament that promises to slash budget deficit to 1.9% of the gross domestic product, the country posted a spectacular economic growth of 4.4% in the...