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Euro Remains By Far Romania's Preferred Currency For Mortgage Loans
Almost 16,000 Romanians bought a house or an apartment on credit last year, but only one in ten chose a loan in Romanian lei.
RBS: Large Companies Would Rather Live With Exchange Rate Risk Than Borrow Lei At Higher Costs
The 6 percent gap between the interest rate on loans in the Romanian currency and that on loans in euros is too high for large companies, which means that even companies who do business excl...
Banks Stop Promoting Loans In Lei For Consumers, Make Them More Expensive
Bankers have ceased promoting loans in lei and even made them more expensive over the past few months. The high interests that once discouraged customers from borrowing in domestic currency...
Cojocaru, Volksbank: Trend Of Lending Is Shifting Towards Loans In Lei
Lending to individuals remains frozen despite the promotional offers, so now banks are betting on loans in lei to companies.
Deposit Interest Rates In Lei And Euro Tend To Even Out
Local banks’ hunger for euros combined with the cash injections of the Romanian central bank (BNR) have led to a spectacular situation on the banking market: interest rates on euro deposits...
Loans In Lei Become More Expensive In January
Bankers made loans in lei more expensive at the beginning of the year, and cut interest rates on deposits attracted from clients, as they seek to boost their income from interest rate margin...
Negritoiu, ING: 2012 Will Not Be Any Better Than 2011
Misu Negritoiu, the banker who has been running the local operations of the Dutch-held ING for five years and a half, does not expect 2012 to be any better than 2011 for banks or for the eco...
Negritoiu, ING: We Would Be Extremely Happy To Sell As Many Mortgage Loans In Lei As Possible
ING Bank, the ninth largest bank on the Romanian market by assets, wants to make 2012 the year of lending in lei and plans to focus on selling products in local currency, from consumer loans...