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Banca Transilvania (TLV) will become a shareholder of brokerage firm SSIF Broker (BRK) after, it obtained 23.4 million shares of the company on May 8th, representing 6.9091% of the share capital of the latter, according to a report sent yesterday...

The investments made by the Kazakh companies in Romania amount to three billion dollars, the biggest investment made by the Kazakh state in Europe, Talgat Kaliyev, Business Director of the Embassy of the Republic of Kazahstan in Romania said at...

Insurance companies owned in Romania by Vienna Insurance Group recorded gross subscribed premiums of 134.5 million Euros, down 7% over the corresponding period of last year, and the losses of the group on the Romanian market fell to 2.7 million...

• "Mechel" has 7,000 employees in Romania  

The launch of the probe into the IPO of "Facebook" looks imminent, following the opinions expressed by the officials of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (FINRA), putting...

The General Meeting of the shareholders of Erste Bank, which was held last week in Vienna, was tense and lasted about twelve hours, according to stock market sources, who claim that the founding members of Erste protested, demanding the honoring...

• Yannis Costopoulos: The high capital requirements would have led to the nationalization of the entity resulting from the merger 

• Interview with Sebastian Vlădescu, former minister of Finance 

The Ministry of the Economy will make adjustments to the program for the privatization of the energy companies to earn more from them.

• Interview with Jörg Guido Hülsmann, professor at the University of Angers 

The Minister of European Affairs, Leonard Orban, yesterday said that the option of Greece's exit from the Eurozone will be placed on the table of the European Council for the first time, at the informal reunion scheduled for May 23rd, in...

Between May 16th and May 18th, Eurocopter România, a joint-venture between the Eurocopter group and IAR Ghimbav, controlled by the Romanian state, will participate in the third edition of the Black Sea Defense & Aerospace 2012 (BSDA) fair,...

• In just one day, the Greeks have withdrawn over 700 million Euros from bank deposits 

The first buffalo farm has been built in the town of Pecica, in the county of Arad, near the Natural Park "Lunca Mureşului", following an investment of 600,000 Euros.

Three members of the Directorate of BCR Pensii were sanctioned by the Commission for the Oversight of the Private Pension System, due to operational problems (CSSPP), Mircea Oancea, the president of the Commission said, in an interview.

Investors will soon be spared from having to go to the offices of the tax administration to pay their taxes on capital gains, according to the draft of the letter of intent to the IMF, obtained exclusively by the BURSA newspaper.

The clawback tax in the pharmaceutical sector, which was introduced in the beginning of Q1 2012, has earned the state budget 282 million lei, money which will be fully used to pay the unrecorded invoices found during last year's stock taking,...

On May 3rd, that is one week after the passing of the vote of no-confidence which brought down the government, the Board of Directors of the TVR had a meeting and its members decided, upon the suggestion of Claudiu Brânzan, board member...

When it comes to their savings, two managers of "Microsoft Romania" say that they prefer mutual funds rather than direct investments in the stock market, mostly due to their risk profile.

The price of the mandatory takeover bid of "Protan" Bucharest (symbol: PRON) was not fairly set, the Association of Capital Market Investors (AIPC) considers.

"Good evening Budapest!", is the greeting which automatically gets the people of Bucharest riled. It has been heard in many pop - rock concerts which took place on the shores of Dâmboviţa and has sparked reactions from angry booing to...

Over 1,000 jobs in the IT and telecommunication area might be created in Braşov over the next three years, if the board of the German company T-Systems International GmbH, one of the global divisions of Deutsche Telekom, decides to open a branch...

The Romanian authorities did not notify "Roman Copper" concerning the current status of the privatization process of Cupru Min.

Fuel sales of Petrom dropped during the first three months of the year due to the unfavorable weather conditions of January and February.

The regional expansion of the business is a strategic point for NIS, a subsidiary of "Gazprom Neft". Romania is one of the countries which represent a priority, which presents a promising avenue for development, according to the...

The Ponta government no longer changed the targets assumed by the Ungureanu government when it comes to the privatizations in the energy sector and the private management implemented in companies subordinated to the Ministry of the Economy.

Reporter: What is the current stage of the relation between Romania and Japan?

In October 2011, "Gazprom" CEO Aleksei Miller announced the company's willingness to give a positive answer to the requests of the Romanian party to establish direct contractual relations fro selling natural gas to Romania, by...

The regional expansion of the business is a strategic point for NIS, a subsidiary of "Gazprom Neft".

After several years where Romania has seen a deficit in its foreign trade with the USA, last year, it has seen a trade surplus of 251 million dollars in the bilateral relations between the two countries.

Banca Transilvania is at an advanced stage of the talks to select a new CEO, after the position remained vacant, in the beginning of this year, after the resignation of Robert Rekkers, Horia Ciorcilă, the chairman of the Board of Directors of BT,...

Interview with His Excellency Mr. Sami Shiba, Ambassador of the Republic of Albania in Bucharest

The Final of the Europa League, which will be held next week, on May 9th, has succeeded in attracting the attention of all of Europe to Bucharest, with the Spanish being the most interested.

The former minister of Finance Bogdan Drăgoi yesterday came on TV to tell us that the Budget has enough money to bring back the wages of the public sector workers to what they were before they were cut by 25%, in an attempt to deny the statements...

If "journalists must regain the respect of the public", which is how the Romanian Press Club has titled its address, published on the occasion of the World Press Freedom Day, then that means that the journalists have lost the respect of...