Financial

President Klaus Iohannis promulgated the law concerning deposit guarantee schemes and the Bank Deposit Guarantee Fund, the Presidential Administration reports cited by Agrepress. The main novelties refer to recognizing two administration regimes for bank deposit guarantee schemes, regulating the law of protective institutional systems and contractual schemes concerning guarantees, (...) regulating the procedure of official recognition of privately-managed deposit guarantee schemes by the National Bank of Romania as the authority designated to supervise such deposit guarantee schemes; introducing the option of deposit guarantee schemes from various European Union member states merging together; imposing an explicit supervision regime on continual bases by the National Bank of the activities of the privately-managed deposit guarantee schemes officially recognised in Romania....more »

A number of Romanian companies that have used EU funds will soon have to return most or all of the money they utilized. ...more »

According to EUROSTAT, Romania has seen the greatest growth in terms of retail trade in September of 2015 compared to the same period of 2014......more »

During this particular period,
when companies are in the middle of the budgeting process for the
following year , the state aid event
was a great opportunity to get an overview on this incentive and
learn more about financing investments on non-reimbursable funds
through the State Aid Schemes for 2014-2020 in Romania .
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MasterCard has recently introduced the
contactless card payment system for Vending Zone's O'Fresh vending machines and
has subsequently seen much better results than originaly expected, as 30 percent
of consumers opted for this method of paying....more »

On the 27th of October 2015,
the Romanian Government approved, changes which are to be applied to
the New Fiscal Code, which will enter into force starting January
2016....more »

Marius Nica, Romanian Minister of
European Funds declared recently(1) that the country's EU fund
absorption rate was estimated at around 65 percent and that by the
end of the year it would probably reach 70 percent. ...more »

From the first semester of 2014 to the
same period in 2015, the total estimated value of transactions in
Romania has gone from 0,6 to 2,1 billion USD, a recent Ernst&Young
press release reveals.
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Lazar Group, headed by business man Ion Lazar
acquired Edy Spedition's shares during an auction hosted by the legal
administrator of the latter company....more »

Romania had the fourth lowest debt in
the EU in 2014 according to Eurostat. The countries with the lowest
public debt were Estonia, Luxembourg, Bulgaria, Romania, Latvia and
Lithuania......more »