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By celebrating the "ie" (the Romanian blouse), Romanians celebrate themselves and their traditions. Few are the things that so consistently say a story about this people like this blouse does, with its black, white and other colors it...

The representatives of the banking sector claim that the system has a particularly good capitalization and a good liquidity, and that at the end of 2020 the banking system was stable, with a solvency of more than 25% and much improved liquidity

The digitalization of the banking sector will have beneficial public sector effects, as banks' customers will force public institutions to digitalize their work, claims Claudiu-Marinel Mureşan, President of the Committee on Budget, Finance,...

The European celebration of football begins today. With a one year delay. Better later than very late

Central and Eastern European stock markets need to create their own asset class to become more attractive to international investors and passive equity funds, said Andre Cappon, founder of the CBM advisory group in New York, USA.

Hydrogen is the revolution of the future in the energy sector, and Romania needs to make the most of the opportunities made available by the European Union's funding plans and instruments in this respect, a growing number of experts in the...

During the last 20+ years, exchange consolidation has been going strong, worldwide.

For the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) to be promoted to the status of an emerging market according to the rules of index provider MSCI, the listing of Hidroelectrica is needed, said Johan Meyer, CEO of Franklin Templeton Bucharest and Portfolio...

The Bulgarian Stock Exchange is open for any discussion about future cooperation in our region, said Manyu Moravenon, its CEO. Among other things, he said that the initiative to create an information hub for the countries of the 3 Seas Initiative...

The stock markets of Central and Eastern Europe must have a niche that makes them attractive to investors, says Mahmut Aydoğmuş, PhD, Director (Act.) International Relations at the Istanbul Stock Exchange.

The Budapest Stock Exchange (BSE) wants to establish partnerships with other stock exchanges in the region over the next five years, said its CEO, Richard Vegh.

In the last four years, the Ljubljana Stock Exchange (Slovenia) has developed a platform for companies at different stages of the life cycle, through which they can raise financing, says Ales Ipavec, Chairman of the Board of the Ljubljana Stock...

The only chance of exchanges in CEE is to follow the Viennese model and to turn towards "the regions where big money comes from", that being the US, Great Britain, and Western Europe, says Cristoph Boschan, CEO of the Vienna Stock...

The Zagreb Stock Exchange (Croatia) has chosen the path of expansion abroad under its management for more than a decade, given that, being only a national market, it did not have enough resources.

From a macroeconomic perspective, Central and Eastern Europe has a complete competitive advantage over the other members of the European Union, says Witold Wilinski, the CEO of GPW Tech, part of the Warsaw Stock Exchange group (GPW Group).

The Belgrade Stock Exchange (Serbia) wishes to be part of the regional cooperation process in Central and Eastern Europe, says CEO Sinisa Krneta, who thinks that players actors in the region need to identify solutions to strengthen this...

The recent post-pandemic evolution is surprisingly positive when it comes to the number of investors, claims Jan Pricop, the Executive Director of the Romanian Fund Managers Association (Asociaţia Administratorilor de Fonduri din România - AAF).

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) can be the main player that can facilitate a cooperation between the exchanges in our region, says Artan Gjergji, CEO of the Albanian Stock Exchange.

The schedule of the easing restrictions announced by the government for the summer season, depending on the national vaccination campaign and the case rate concerning the current pandemic represent a warning for specialists in the field....

The Covid-19 lockdown and the associated economic crisis have irrevocably changed people's lives. One of the changes with a long term impact has been the acceleration of the transition towards digital payments

UPDATE: April 27, 2021

The case where the Financial Oversight Authority (ASF) rejected the public takeover bid for the majority stake is far from over.

The approval of the state budget, the third wave of pandemic, new movement restrictions, spontaneous subway strike and protests against government measures are the defining elements of the most tumultuous month since the beginning of 2021 so far

The lockdown has messed up people's lives all over the world. This has overlapped with other, smaller crises. It has influenced several areas of business and has also had a positive influence on migration. In mid 2020, the migration rate had...

History only covers a little over 5000 years in the evolution of the world. Slow at first, it has picked up pace to a dizzying speed, and the major changes are no longer taking place over a man's lifetime, but in just a few decades, and dropping

The world of football is at a turning point. The rich in football have started a revolution to isolate themselves from the rest of the world, a kind of haiducie in reverse. The reactions against this action range from moderate and violent and...

Thousands of people all over the country have begun taking to the street to protest against the restrictions imposed by the government last week, where protesters no longer abided by the anti-Covid restrictions, as a concrete proof of their...

Romania has an extraordinary energy potential in the Black Sea, whether it's wind energy, or natural gas, potential that has so far been very little exploited. Specialists that met on April 7, 2021 in a debate in the Parliament's Palace,...

The Romanian anti-Covid 19 vaccine seems to have reached a deadlock concerning the funds needed for ongoing research. The initially allocated amount is insufficient, and the making of the vaccine needs financing, says university professor Ph. D....

China is looking to become the world's biggest economy, an intention which is also visible from the speeches of the country's officials. The efforts in that direction are visible, as the Chinese economy was the only one that had a strong...

The Government is aiming to increase the role of women in society, respectively in entrepreneurship, and in that respect it is reviewing methods that have been successfully applied in other countries, according to Ms. Anca Dragu, Senate...

Paul Robinson, History professor at the University of Ottawa, recently wrote an editorial for the RT media network (Russia Today) stating that "a war between Russia and Ukraine is only possible if Ukraine attacks first".

The refusal of the ASF (Financial Oversight Authority) to approve the mandatory public takeover bid for the Electroargeş SA shares, submitted by Investments Constantin SRL, will be investigated by the prosecutors of the National Anti-Corruption...

Readers of the BURSA newspaper yesterday anticipated the decision made yesterday by prime-minister Florin Cîţu. 55% of 1488 respondents to our poll launched following last week's events of the Foişor hospital voted in favor of Vlad Voiculescu...

The draft law for amending and supplementing Law no. 85/2014, a legislative initiative that will transpose into national law the European directive 2019/1023 will introduce a culture of prevention through the pre-insolvency procedures included in...

Citibank - 25 years of operation in Romania

"Banks are currently at a time where they are going through a reinvention"

(Interview with Ivan Vrhel, CEO of Citibank România)

The Maldives, spread across the Indian Ocean, are naturally protected from the coronavirus through their isolation from the rest of the world, surrounded by water. Maldives manages to bring back your sense of silence and normality, and the...

• Ben Madadi: "It amazing how millions of people are being financially harmed" 

• "A cleanup that is already long overdue needs to happen on the Romanian stock market, and investor rights need to be taken seriously", the investor...

On March 18, the European Commission presented the proposal for the implementation of the digital Green Certificate, in order to reopen tourism and free circulation within the EU, amid the so-called Covid-19 pandemic. We are not talking about a...

Over the last year, the global topic has been the Covid-19 pandemic and the potential treatments which could be administered in the event of getting infected with this virus. Controversies on the topic are many, and in many countries various...

An increase in the volume of non-performing loans is one of this year's risks for the banking system, Gabriela Folcuţ, Executive Director of the Romanian Banking Association (ARB) told us. "The Balance of Non-Governmental credit evolved...