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Treichl: BCR's New CEO Is More Of An Italian Than A Czech
Five years after Erste took control of Romania's largest bank, Andreas Treichl, the chief executive of the Austrian group, has high expectations from the new management team of BCR.
BNR Pushes For Lower Interests. Key Rate Drops To 5.5%
Romania’s central bank Thursday cut its key monetary policy rate by 25 basis points for the third consecutive time to a record low of 5.5% a year, in line with analysts’ expectations, as inf...
Growth Through Competitiveness
The debt crisis has turned into the most serious crisis of confidence in the European Union's history. Citizens and investors are asking themselves: is Europe doing enough to prevent the cri...
SIF Oltenia Stalls Sale Of BCR Stake: We Have All The Time In The World
Romanian regional investment fund SIF Oltenia (SIF5.RO), the only one of the five SIFs which has yet to sign the contract to sell its shares in BCR to Austria’s Erste Group Bank (EBS.RO), sa...
The Map Of Modern Retail: One In Five Stores Is In Bucharest
Despite the consumption slump, modern retailers continued expansion in Romania in 2011.
Tiriac Jr: We’re Strongly Committed To Agriculture Investment And Seek At Least 2,000 Ha More
Ion Alexandru Tiriac, son of Romanian billionaire Ion Tiriac, says he wants to expand the activity of Tiriac Holdings to new sectors which are recording significant increases, such as the ag...
Ioan Niculae Says Interagro Group's Firms Were Ruined Following Investigation Start
Ioan Niculae, the owner of the Interagro group, said on Monday, as he was leaving the headquarters of the organized crime investigation unit DIICOT, that the prosecutor’s office was plotting...
Gains Of Top Farmers From 2011 Wheat Harvest
Romanian farmers harvested this year a record wheat crop of over 7 million tons, an increase of 30% on the previous year. Money-wise, this year’s crop is worth about EUR1.3 billion, consider...
Corporate Sales Drive Diesel Cars Market Share Up
Dealers sold almost 20% more diesel cars in the first eleven months of 2011 than in the same time of last year, according to the data supplied by the Romanian Association of Automotive Manuf...
Advice For Foreigners Coming To Bucharest
SAFETY ADVICE • We strongly recommend that you only withdrew money from banks, or from cash machines within banks or hotels. There are plenty of banks in the city center and around the confe...
There Won’t Be Easy Money Around Anymore, Nor In Plentiful Supply
Three years have passed since we entered the financial crisis. Since then bank managements have been fretting over how to ensure their banks have sufficient capital and liquidity, how to kee...
Significance Of SIF Stake Cap Raise
The Chamber of Deputies on Thursday voted to raise the SIF (regional investment funds) stake cap from 1% to 5%, but only the few thousand investors active on the Bucharest stock market know...