The Credit Guarantee Program for SMEs engaged 20 banks which submitted their applications within the given period whose deadline was last Thursday, January 30, The National Fund for Credit Guarantee for Small and Medium Enterprises announced through a media release, Agerpres informs....more »

Raiffeisen Leasing today announced that managed to carry out the procedures for taking over the leasing portfolio from ING Lease which includes assets exceeding 30 million euro and about 60 corporate clients. The transaction has been completed on the basis of an agreement concluded in October 2013....more »

Oltenia Energy Complex (CEO) today signed a financing agreement with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development meant to facilitate the refurbishment of the unit 6 of the Turceni thermal power station, Agerpres informs....more »

Those interested in participating at the privatization of the chemical plant, still have the possibility to submit their binding offers following a postponement of the initial deadline – January 31, 2014, until March 28, 2014. The delay has been called by investors and was approved by Oltchim’s Committee and creditors which convened yesterday as per the request of the judicial administrators, Rominsolv and BDO Business Restructuring, is stated by a media release....more »

The selection process run by Hidroelectrica in view of appointing an agent for its initial public offering scheduled for June, this year, has been carried out, all technical bids being declared eligible. According to a notification published on hydro power producer’s website, the syndicate consisting of Raiffeisen Caputal & Investment and Morgan Stanely & Co International has been assigned to coordinate the said offering....more »

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) anticipates a 2.4 percent economic advance for the current year, below the World Bank’s estimation of 2.5 percent announced last week....more »

After several years when the foreign direct investments in Romania went on a declining path, yet with some sign o revival in 2012, last year brought a positive evolution in terms of investments of non-resident in our country. With a significant advance in the second half of the year, the FDI totaled nearly 2.4 billion euro at 11 months in 2013, the maximum of the last four years, as per the reports published by Romania’s Central Bank....more »

EximBank signed financial agreements worth some 50 million euro with Alro Slatina for financing its current activity and issuing letters of guarantee and credit for contracts it concludes, according to a press release submitted to the Bucharest Stock Exchange. ...more »

Hidroelectrica starts the selection process of the intermediary of the Initial Public Offering for the 15 percent of the shares to be issued through an increase of its social capital. Today at noon, it was the deadline for submitting the offers which  eventually amounted to five, according to a press release of the state-owned company....more »

Romania’s Ministry of Public Finance reopened yesterday a 15-year bond issue launched in February 2012, raising 100 million lei from local banks, Agerpres informs. The maturity date is July 26, 2027 and the average yield, 5.41 percent....more »