The support granted by the state sector to SMEs, through projects and financing, is a good sign, said Okan Yurtsever, general manager of Garanti Leasing. He told us, in an interview, that this segment will have an increasing contribution to the...

Developing the SME sector is a priority, and the government, together with the business sector and with the market, must create policies to allow easy access to funding, because a major problem the sector currently is currently faced with is lack...

Romanian small and medium enterprises can get development loans of up to 1.5 million Euros (the equivalent in lei) from EximBank for investment projects, for a period of up to 10 years, said Corina Vulpeş, the head of the Department of Domestic...

The segment of creativity must be seen as an opportunity for added value, says Cristian Pârvan, the secretary general of the Association of Romanian Businesspeople (AOAR), who says that innovation has become an industry worth taking into...

The Government is working on a memorandum which stipulates the expansion of the activity of a National Fund for the Guarantee of SME Loans, which would become the Fund for the Guarantee of Loans Using European Grants, said Florin Jianu, Delegate...

The focus in the coming period will be on the simplification of EU grants absorption procedures, as the issues uncovered so far in that regard concern bureaucracy and public procurement, according to Claudia Ionescu, the head of the Regional...

Romania needs an innovation cluster for SMEs in every region, said Ovidiu Nicolescu, the president of the National Council of Small and Medium Enterprises of Romania (CNIPMMR).

The banking system bears the brunt of the crisis, claims Radu Graţian Gheţea, the president of CEC Bank and the head of the Romanian Banking Association (ARB).

Director Tudor Giurgiu last week presented his unfinished version of the movie "De ce eu?" (ed. note: "Why me?"), which has as its topic the death of prosecutor Cristian Panait, which occurred in 2002.

Several investors have notified the Financial Oversight Authority (ASF) about the fact that the law on the shut down of the Rasdaq, which was recently passed, contains "flaws", which allow issuers to avoid fulfilling their obligations to...

Dan Sultănescu, political consultant on the team of Victor Ponta, and executive director of the CSCI institute for the polling of public opinion (The Infopolitic Center for Studies and Research) says that the PSD will continue to govern as long...

In BURSA, sociologist Alin Teodorescu forecasted Klaus Iohannis would be the winner, one week prior to the second round of the presidential elections.

In a hostel of "2 Mai", a resort at the Romanian seaside, where teens who had come in for nudism and juvenile philosophy would stay a while, sleeping topsy-turvy, all dazed from alcohol and breathing smoke, there was a spider that became...

The madness of loans denominated in Swiss Francs (CHF) seems to have reached a climax, where at least one of the banks involved has given in.

For twelve minutes, Klaus Iohannis kept quiet: the electoral confrontation at Realitatea TV, held three evenings go, had begun at eight o'clock, moderator Rareş Bogdan talked for six minutes, loquacious Victor Ponta talked for six minutes,...

Sociologist Alin Teodorescu told us that the outcome of the second round of the presidential elections has been known for a few months now: "Look at what has happened in the presidential elections of 2004 and you will understand what will...

On Sunday night, Prime-minister Victor Ponta said, on TV, that Romania doesn't have shale gas deposits. "Apparently we don't have shale gas and we have been fighting hard over something that we do not have", the prime-minister...

Lucian Anghel, the president of the Bucharest Stock Exchange, who was saying, in summer, that the issue of Government bonds for the population has entered "the final lap", yesterday said that he hoped the announcement of the first issue...

With her well-known naiveté, Ioana Petrescu, the minister of finance, may be playing some games that are standard fare on our capital market, by tinkering with the holding limit in the SIFs, which is a factor that is notorious for its direct...

Through an ironic twist of fate, just as the European Central Bank became the sole watchdog of the biggest banks in Europe, an important step towards achieving the Banking Union, discord has set in in Frankfurt.

Victor Cionga, the new president of "Electrica", says that he wants to work as a team with the current executive, adding that if necessary, he will bolster certain management positions by promoting new people.

Călin Popescu Tăriceanu, Corneliu Vadim Tudor and Teodor Meleşcanu yesterday expressed their support for the candidacy of Victor Ponta in second round of the presidential elections.

The stake of 4.52% of Banca Transilvania (TLV) had the largest weight in the net assets of SIF1 Banat Crişana, at the end of Q3, placing it higher than the 2.41% stake in BRD, which combined 9.39% of the net asset, according to the 9-month...

The boorish debauchery of the electoral campaign (which in actuality has been going on for years) and the unsatisfactory quality of the supply of candidates in yesterday's elections, heavily emphasized by the tens of arrests of ministers and...

Every politician has a skeleton in their closet.

The worsening of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict could create serious problems for Romania and the Eurozone, said the specialists present at the "Romania Trade & Export Finance Conference", which was held yesterday for the first time...

Affairs that are more than two decades old are being brought to light like skeletons in the closet to march towards the ballot boxes, thus participating in the electoral struggle.

The Romanian banking environment is under no circumstances in a state of vulnerability, according to economist Ionuţ Dumitru, president of the Fiscal Council.

The European Central Bank (ECB) and the European Banking Authority (ABE) yesterday published the results of the stress tests that 123 European banks were subjected to.

Anonymous sources have been feeding the rumor mill around the stress tests conducted on banks of systemic importance in Europe. The most pessimistic estimate, according to which 18 banks will not pass the test, came from the banking expert of...

At least 11 European banks will not pass the stress tests conducted by the European Central Bank (ECB) out of about 130 lenders in the region, announces Spanish agency EFE, quoting anonymous banking sources.

Rumor has it that the United States have allowed our judges and prosecutors to express their independence.

Farmers in the European union have suffered losses of 5.1 billion Euros following the embargo imposed by the Russian Federation, MEP Laurenţiu Rebega told us. He also said that so far, the Ministry of Agriculture has not calculated the losses...

Agriculture has extraordinary energy reserves, such as biodiesel, which, in the future, will be able to eliminate the dependency on diesel oil, said Cristian Pârvan, the secretary general of the Association of Romanian Businesspeople (AOAR). In...

Stupidity is contagious

The directorate of SIF3 Transilvania sent a letter to its shareholders explaining the items on the agenda of the shareholder meeting scheduled for October 20th/21st, submitted by Constantin Frăţilă, who owns 5% of the company together with other...

Luck seems to have smiled down on Ludwik Sobolewski, in his first year as CEO of the BSE: the government helped him with IPOs, the Financial Oversight Authority with changes in the secondary legislation and fee cuts, and the Parliament, by...

Many beneficiaries whose projects were approved between 2008-2010 were unable to complete the contracts financed using the European grants, said Ramona Ivan, the head of the Foreign Relations and Structural Financing Department of CEC Bank.

The institutions of the state must take concrete measures to protect farmers from harmful foreign factors, such as the embargo imposed by Russia, which can affect their activity and output, said Alex Jurconi, the president of the PRO AGRO...

Banks are still charging a high interest rate on loans taken out for agricultural projects (5.5-6%), farmer Adrian Rădulescu said.