In two separate rankings of the 50 largest banks and insurance companies in the region, Romania holds five places.
The complete results of the study will be announced next week.
In last year’s ranking, Romania had 38 businesses in the regional top 500, with oil company Petrom on 25. The top 50 included two Romanian banks, BCR (9) and BRD (15), and five insurance companies – Astra, Allianz-Tiriac Asigurari, Omniasig, Groupama and ING Asigurari de Viata.