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Hungarian banking group OTP is interested in Piraeus Bank, according to some sources of the National Bank of Romania.

Two highway projects, Piteşti - Sibiu and Ploieşti - Braşov, threaten to disturb the peace of Carpathian bears and to assuage the anger of amateur drivers who are fond of mountain landscapes or of road trips across Europe.

The solution to save distressed banks isn't the bail-in, (the measure of recapitalizing distressed banks, which also involves the confiscation of unguaranteed deposits), says Nicolae Cinteză, the head of the Oversight Division of the NBR, who...

Reporter: How do you see, so far, 2015 from a financial point of view, globally and in Europe?

Today, August 10th, BURSA celebrates 25 years - continuous publication, independent journalism, relentlessly upright, rising, presenting the human evolution.

The major powers are struggling to resolve the conflict that has been raging in Syria for more than four years now, but their efforts have been "rewarded": the protests on the edge of the Syrian state have become a devastating civil war,...

With an authorized capital of 100 billion dollars, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) intends to stimulate investments in transport, energy and telecommunications infrastructures.

Shares of Polish banks fell significantly yesterday on the WSE (Warsaw Stock Exchange) after the Seim, the lower chamber of the Parliament has approved the law on the conversion of loans denominated in Swiss francs.

The crisis in Greece has not left depositors that are keeping their money in Romanian banks with Greek capital indifferent, as a significant number of individuals and companies have withdrawn the money from their bank deposits.

Every successful year plants the seed of a future crisis, and 2015 is a successful year, governor Mugur Isărescu warned yesterday, and he expressed his hope that, this time, we will be "clever" enough to avoid that risk.

The offer made by Bancpost is an aberration, says governor Mugur Isărescu, speaking about the conversion proposal made by the bank to a CHF borrower, which would have made the conversion at an exchange rate of 4.52 lei/CHF, while the regular...

The Romanian Commodity Exchange (BRM) claims that the Romanian authorities did not transpose correctly the provisions of the European directive concerning public procurement put up for public debate.

You'd think it's a mistake.

If the law on the conversion of loans denominated in foreign currencies which the Ministry of Public Finance is currently working on, were mandatory, then customers could be hurt, says NBR deputy governor Bogdan Olteanu.

Starting from the principle that every institution needs to have "a council of wise men", the Ministry of Public Finance (MFP) has created its own Advisory Council.

The Ministry of the Environment, Waters and Forests (MMAP) has sent the General Prosecutors' Office a number of reports after the audits it conducted at forestry operators, which resulted in the uncovering of many irregularities, including at...

Bogdan Stănescu, the new receiver of Hidroelectrica SA, who is also the head of the Companies Department of the Ministry of Energy, sees the listing of the company in 2017, approximately one year after exiting insolvency.

The first hearing in a class action lawsuit in which the court has ruled in favor of borrowers apparently was apparently held yesterday, according to three credible sources: lawyer Gheorghe Piperea, ANPC president Marius Dunca and lawyer Adrian...

The shareholders of Hidroelectrica yesterday decided to replace Gabriel Dumitraşcu as special administrator of the company, as announced exclusively by BURSA in its June 11th issue.

The prosecutors of the National Anti-Corruption Department (DNA) have yesterday raided doctors and pharmaceutical company in an investigation which concerns bribes in exchange for promoting drugs used in treating cancer. More to the point,...

The Competition Council has announced yesterday, that it has begun an investigation concerning the possible violation of national and EU rules by Media Xprimm, UNSAR (the Romanian National Union of Insurance and Reinsurance Companies), the...

Shocked beyond belief that Mişu Negriţoiu, the president of the Financial Oversight Authority (ASF) is not issuing a response to the accusations being made against him, namely that in 2003 and 2004 (when he was executive director of ING Wholesale...

Whereas in the last few years there has been a lot of talk about clauses that are considered abusive, mostly in the case of loan agreements concluded between banks and debtors, and there are a number of lawsuits in court on that matter, there are...

Lately, various Russian officials have been periodically generating news which comprise various threats to Romania.

Depositors that have amounts larger than the maximum guaranteed amount of 100,000 Euros have begun withdrawing their money, as demonstrated by the report of the Fund for the Guarantee of Bank Deposits (FGDB).

The idea of a "European economic government" has been brought up once again by Francois Hollande, two days ago, but this time confining it to "gouvernement de l'eurozone", which proves not only that French presidents have one...

Yesterday's and today's European leaders, the same in their nature, just like yesterday's communists became today's "democrats", have succeeded an amazing performance: they've turned the most ardent supporters of the...

I for one, do not want to give Greece 1.5 billion Euros, as apparently the European Commission has decided yesterday to ask the member states of the European Union which are not members of the Eurozone to do yesterday, (a total guarantee of 13...

European leaders have been insistently repeating lately, the discourse of the faith in Greece and in the government in Athens has been lost, as if they were examples of dependability and morality.

The Islamic Republic of Iran, on one hand, and the US, United Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China, on the other, two days ago reached a common solution to the problem of the "Iranian nuclear dossier", thus concluding over two years...

In the 40 item program that SYRIZA presented in 2012, the last proposal was "closing all the foreign bases in Greece and the exit from NATO".

The four Romanian banks with Greek shareholders would become a single entity, if their shareholders decided to merge, specialists from the NBR told us.

Victor Ponta decided not to seek political asylum in Istanbul, instead he has returned to Bucharest hobbling, making me shed tears of compassion for the fact that his beard has grown just like that of Adrian Năstase, who has changed his...

The Greek authorities have yesterday made the commitment to make reforms in the fiscal sector and of the pension system, "starting next week", and in return asking for a three-year loan from the European Stability Mechanism (ESM),...

Who benefits from the Greeks' vote on Sunday and how? Who gains what? Perhaps it wouldn't be meaningless to even ask ourselves who wins or who loses.

Even though the NBR assures citizens that their deposits are safe, some politicians' statements could create panic among depositors, which would lead to massive withdrawals from banks.

Finance ministers in the Eurozone (Eurogroup) are waiting for new reform proposals for from Athens, but the result of the recent referendum in Greece will make negotiations difficult, says Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the president of the Eurogroup, who...

The "no" vote in the Greek referendum seems to have brought about even more uncertainty concerning the country's future, analysts say, and they present various scenarios, from new negotiations with the international creditors and...

The mind-numbing argument against the organization of the Referendum in Greece, invokes the fact that people are not familiar with the subtle technique of finance and of the banking system, an argument which naturally originates from the European...

All of Europe is concerned over Greece's possible default, save for Romanian politicians. They are more interested in increasing the special salaries and pensions, the issues that Ponta has in the PSD, by Oprea's plagiarism or by the...