Senior Editor
Razvan Voican
- Fields
- Banks-Insurance, Macroeconomics, Capital Market
- Writing for ZF since
- 2011
- Articles
- 77
Finance Ministry Has To Pay Back EUR9.8B As Part Of The Loan Meant To “Stabilize” Romania
The huge EUR20 billion loan taken out by Romania in 2009 from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the European Commission and the World Bank – first as a “safety net”, but which soon beca...
Petculescu, Bancpost: Bankers Only Pretend To Lend By Stealing Clients From One Another
Bankers now only pretend to grant loans, by fighting to take clients from one another, says Elena Petculescu, honorary president of Bancpost. “I am very happy that we ourselves get new clien...
Bankers On BNR's New Restrictions: We Need Low Interests On Leu Loans, Not Regulations
The current anomalies of the retail lending market have been generated by regulations imposed by the National Bank of Romania, or BNR, at some point, as solutions to certain situations, but...
Alina Pascu Leaves Banca Feroviara
Alina Pascu has resigned from her position of deputy general manager at Romanian lender Banca Feroviara, controlled by businessman Valer Blidar, after just six months with the bank, said peo...
SocGen And Erste Collect EUR1.1M Fee After Romania's EUR1.5B Bond Issue
Societe Generale and Erste Group, the two banks hired as lead managers of the EUR1.5 billion bond issue launched by Romania a week ago on international markets, collected a fee of 0.075% of...
ING Has Several Major Corporate Financing Deals In Pipeline
The first three months of this year were frustrating as financing deals under discussion were making no headway, but several projects are nearing completion in summer, says Mihaela Bitu, ING...
UniCredit Tiriac Bank Moves To Bigger Building
UniCredit Tiriac Bank, controlled by Italy’s UniCredit Group, is set to move its central office into a new 15-floor building on Expozitiei Boulevard nearby the World Trade Center in the firs...
Vladescu: Romania Should Spur Growth By Raising Deficit For Infrastructure Works
The only thing Romania can do to boost economic growth is to assume an additional budget gap by granting state guarantees for crucial infrastructure projects, says Sebastian Vladescu, a form...
Romania Borrows EUR11.5B In Five Months To Keep Going
The record-high EUR1.5 billion raised by the Finance Ministry last week from the foreign markets brings to over EUR4.5 billion the foreign currency debt accumulated by Romania since the begi...
Sberbank Would Take Over Volksbank Romania Only After Austrian Owners Turn It Around
German Gref, CEO of Russian banking giant Sberbank, was recently in Vienna recently to participate in the negotiations to take over the assets of Volksbank International, where the Romanian...
Romania Taps Foreign Markets With EUR1B Bond Issue
After more than a year, Romania returns to the international markets with an euro-denominated bond issue, the first in a program poised to raise EUR7 billion.
UniCredit's Nicastro: We Could Buy The Right Bank
Italy’s UniCredit group, which controls the seventh domestic bank by assets, UniCredit Tiriac Bank, is opening up on a possible acquisition as an alternative to the classic business expansio...