Bankers
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Bankers keep interest rate pressure on existing clients
Banks are cutting interest rates on new loans, and even organise promotions, while existing clients continue to bear the burden of high interest rates, while bankers hope to cover bad-loan l...
Bankers borrow again from abroad on short term
Banks again increased the short-term foreign debt, largely reflecting funding received from foreign shareholders, by half a billion euros in the first quarter, to 6.62bn euros, after a year...
Bankers see plans thwarted by austerity measures
Bankers were expecting a rebound of lending to the individual customers in the second quarter of the year, after almost two years of stagnation, in the context where they were anticipating b...
Bankers charge fees even for depositing cash into accounts
After charging fees for access to one’s own money, bankers are now charging fees even for cash deposits into accounts, in an attempt to boost revenues.
Bankers' thirst for money generates bizarre fees
Bankers' need to identify new revenue sources has led to the emergence of some hard-to-justify fees, from the taxing of money depositing at the pay desk in one's own account, to taxing accou...
Bankers make almost 100m-euro profit in Q1
Bankers managed to post a 100 million-euro net profit in the first quarter of the year even though the economy is most likely still in recession, precisely because of the lack of funding, wh...
Bankers charge hundreds of RON to analyse loan applications
Bankers complain about the lack of demand for loans, but once inside an agency, clients are charged even before contracting a loan. In order to analyse the applications for a mortgage loan,...
Bankers say they will turn on retail lending spigot just a little
Bankers do not expect to grant too many retail loans this year and say housing and consumer loans will increase by around 10% in 2010 after stagnating last year.
Bad start of 2010 for bankers: provisions up 234 million euros
Bankers had to set aside 964 million RON (some 234 million euros) as provisions in January alone, given that the number of troubled loans continued to rise fast as more and more clients foun...