PayPoint Romania processed more than 100 milion transactions worth a total of RON13.6 billion via its 25,000 partner stores and the 24pay app saw a 60% increase in the number of payments in 2023.
The percentage of Romanian CEOs who believe their organizations will need to reinvent their business model to survive in the next decade has risen to 37 percent this year, up from 27 percent in the previous edition of the PwC CEO Survey.
The volume of construction works in Romania shrank, in unadjusted data, by 77% in January 2024 compared with December 2023 and by 34.2% when adjusted to the number of working days and to seasonality, data from the country’s statistics board INS showed on Wednesday (March 20).
Lucian Anghel, who ran Banca Romaneasca between January 2020 and December 2022 has received approval from Romania’s central bank to become deputy chief executive officer of Libra Internet Bank, Libra announced.
Romanian natural gas producer and supplier Romgaz (SNG.RO) on Wednesday (March 20) announced its shareholders in a stock market report that it opened a term deposit in amount of RON201.1 million, with Exim Banca Romaneasca.
The board of directors of the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB.RO), the operator of Romania’s capital market, has called shareholders for an April 24 meeting to vote, among others, on the distribution of RON12.5 million dividends from 2023’s net profit of RON21.8 million.
Romanian fast food chain Fryday, established by Suceava entrepreneur Lucian Florea, has grown to nine restaurants and ended last year with RON28.6 million (EUR5.7 million) revenue, double as much as in 2022.
Romania's economic growth of 2.1% in 2023 was generated almost 50% by the construction sector, which ended up accounting for 8% of the country's GDP, compared to 6% in 2018.
Banca Transilvania (stock symbol: TLV), the largest lender in Romania, by assets, has announced that its Board of Directors decided on March 19, 2024 to approve the buyback of a maximum number of 2 million shares (out of a total 5 million shares approved to be repurchased by shareholders), as per a report published at the Bucharest Stock Exchange (March 19).
CEC Bank, a lender held by the Romanian government via the Finance Ministry, climbed to 3rd place in the ranking of the largest banks in Romania by assets in 2023, overtaking BRD, which is held by French group Societe Generale.
Omniasig, the largest company in the local portfolio of Austria's Vienna Insurance Group (VIG), ended 2023 with an increase of 12% in gross written premiums compared to 2022, up to a total RON2.4 billion, in line with data provided by the insurer.