The European Investment Bank (EIB) has granted a EUR25 million loan to Patria Bank to support Romanian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and Mid-Caps, per a press statement.
The Romanian management consulting market is poised to grow by nearly 7% annually over the next decade, amid accelerated digital transformation, cost optimization pressure and a growing need for organizational efficiency, according to Horváth, a global management consulting company active in the Romanian market since 2005.
Romanian retail sales fell 4.0% month-on-month in August 2025 and, excluding the pandemic lockdown period, this is the largest monthly drop since the 2009-10 crisis, according to a survey by ING Bank.
More than 119,500 housing units were sold across Romania in January-September 2025, down only 0.3% compared to the same period of 2024, reveals a report by real estate consultancy SVN Romania based on official statistics of the National Agency for Cadaster and Land Registration.
Modern retail has increasingly focused lately on small and medium-sized cities, as localities with below 50,000 inhabitants have a modern commercial space stock of around 70 square meters per 1.000 inhabitants, a value that is 2 to 11 times lower than in the other countries of the CEE-6 group (Bulgaria, Czechia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Hungary), according to Colliers.