Senior Editor
Razvan Voican
- Fields
- Banks-Insurance, Macroeconomics, Capital Market
- Writing for ZF since
- 2011
- Articles
- 77
Garanti Head: Turning From Branch To Local Bank Accountable For 2010 Losses
Less than a year after starting operations as a Romanian bank, Garanti Bank recorded profit, in line with the bank’s medium and long term international strategy, says Murat Atay, the bank’s...
BNR Board Member: Many Non-Performing Loans Could Be Revived If Banks Really Wanted To
Foreign banks are suffocating companies and the government no longer has a powerful bank it can use to compensate business directions dictated by factors from abroad, says Nicolae Danila, fo...
Volksbank’s Offer For Mortgage Loans In Detail
Volksbank returns to the market of home loans with interests of 9.61% on leu-denominated loans and of 6.98% on euro-denominated loans after a two-year pause.
UniCredit Leasing In Competition With Used Car Dealers
UniCredit Leasing, which controls a third of the leasing market, is tapping the used car market with a major project, taking over the former complex built by AAA Auto at the entrance to the...
Carabulea In Advanced Talks To Sell Banca Carpatica
Sibiu businessman Ilie Carabulea, who controls Banca Carpatica, has resumed talks to find an investor in the bank and is already in advanced negotiations with a European investment fund, mar...
What Name Will The Third Leading Bank On Romanian Market Use?
The name of the lender created by the merger of Greek financial groups Alpha Bank and Eurobank, which will own the third leading bank in Romania by assets, should be Alpha Eurobank, but no d...
First Unofficial Meeting Of Alpha And Bancpost Bosses Over Merger
Sergiu Oprescu, executive president of Alpha Bank, and Peter Weiss, executive president of Bancpost, had a private meeting scheduled for Monday evening to unofficially discuss the domestic i...
Will BNR Start Cutting Its Key Rate? Barclays Says Yes, ING Believes Expectations Are Wrong
The falling inflation, disappointing economic growth and the risk outlooks for 2012 will make a case for the Romanian central bank (BNR) to give a monetary policy easing signal at the Septem...
BCR Cuts GDP Growth Projection For 2012 By 1% To 2.9%
Banca Comerciala Romana (BCR), the largest bank on the local market, reduced its economic growth forecast for next year by one percentage point, from 3.9% to 2.9%, quoting the outlook of pro...
Raiffeisen Granted Loans Amounting To EUR300M In 1H
Raiffeisen Bank, the fourth largest bank by assets in mid-2011, has granted loans worth around EUR600 million over the past year, managing to expand its portfolio by 23% from mid-2010, to EU...
Banks' Adjustment To Crisis: 450 Units Closed And 5,000 People Left Since 2008
The banking system continues to slowly adapt its territorial network to the weak loan demand, particularly on the retail segment, so that 32 units were shut down in the second quarter, with...
Bancpost Cedes Market Share By Selling Loans
Bancpost, the ninth lending institution by assets, last year continued to transfer some loan packages from its own balance sheet to the parent bank or other vehicles controlled by it, relinq...