Banks-Insurance
Central Bank: Romania Ends 2025 With Lower Forex Reserves Of EUR64.8B
Romania's foreign exchange reserves stood at EUR64.8 billion at the end of December 2025, lower by EUR608 million than the EUR65.4 billion level reported on November 30, 2025, Romania’s cent...
Romanian Leu Gains Slightly Versus Euro, Exchange Rate At 5.0905
The Romanian leu has slightly extended gains against the euro on January 5, 2026 and the country's central bank set the leu’s reference rate at 5.0905 units per euro, compared to 5.0985 unit...
Three-Month ROBOR Starts 2026 at 6.14%, Flat from End-2025
Romania's three-month ROBOR index, the interbank interest rate used as a reference to calculate variable interests for loans in lei taken out before May 2019, as well as for companies' leu-d...
Three-month ROBOR Ends 2025 At 6.14%, After Starting Year At 5.92%
Romania's three-month ROBOR index, the interbank interest rate used as a reference to calculate variable interests for loans in lei taken out before May 2019, as well as for companies' leu-d...
Romania Bank Deposits Up 5.6% in November 2025 YOY
Household and company deposits with banks went up by 5.6% in November 2025 against the same month of 2024, reaching a total amount of almost RON650 billion as lei deposits rose by 1.4% and f...
Romania Private Lending Growth Continues Slowdown To 6.8% in November 2025 YOY
The annual growth pace of Romania private lending slowed down to 6.8% in November to a total amount of RON446.7 billion, after RON-denominated loans rose by 4.6% and foreign currency ones by...
ING in One-To-One Talks with Spain’s BBVA for Possible Acquisition of Garanti BBVA Romania
Dutch group ING is in direct talks with Spanish group BBVA to see whether it can buy Garanti BBVA Romania, in a bid to more rapidly grow its foothold on the Romanian banking market and not l...
Regulator: Romania Insurance Market Up 11% YoY To RON18.7B In January-September 2025
Romania’s insurance market reached a volume of gross underwritten premiums of RON18.7 billion at the end of the January-September 2025 period, up 11% against the year-earlier interval, in li...
IDB Has New Management Team, Ponders EUR100M Capital Boost To Back Investments, Diversify Instruments Available For Companies
Romania's state-owned Investment and Development Bank (IDB) has a new interim management team consisting of Raluca Nicolescu, interim Deputy Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Simina Bossennec a...