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Banks and NBR paid 620m-euro taxes in 2009
Commercial banks paid 1.2 billion RON (290 million euros) in profit tax, data sent by the National Fiscal Administration Agency to ZF reveal.
Romanians start to prefer RON over foreign currency for deposits
Romanians' foreign currency deposits rose by 16.9% in euros in the past year, reaching 9.1 billion euros at the end of January (35.5 billion RON), according to data from the NBR (National Ba...
IMF money drives NBR reserves to a new all-time peak of 30bn euros
NBR's foreign currency reserves in February climbed by 1.7bn euros from the previous month, to a new all-time high of 29.74bn euros, after the IMF released the third and fourth tranches of t...
Overdue loans even more problematic in January
Overdue loans of individuals and companies climbed to 4.37% of the overall volume, with the almost half a percentage point rise on December disrupting the flattening trend recorded in the la...
Bankers expect mortgage loans to be unfrozen by March
Bankers expect loans for homes to be unfrozen in the first quarter of the year, after imposing less restrictive standards on this segment compared with that of consumer loans in the last thr...
NBR: Romanians are overindebted
Romanians are finding it increasingly hard to pay their monthly instalments to banks, which now account for 22.4% of the population's available income in September last year, compared with a...
Card spending withstands crisis
Romanians spent 24.9 billion RON (5.8 billion euros) on cards in the fourth quarter of 2009, 1% more than in the fourth quarter of 2008, according to data from the NBR.
Solutions to restructure a mortgage loan
Temporary suspension of payments on the principal, charging a zero interest rate for a limited period, capitalising overdue amounts, cutting interest rates and/or extending the duration of t...
BCR CEO calls on NBR to loosen lending regulations
The National Bank could help restore confidence on the lending market by loosening the retail lending norms, to reinforce the impact of rate cuts, said Dominic Bruynseels, CEO of BCR.