Over the past 14 years, Garanti BBVA has financed environmental projects with more than EUR 500,000 through the partnership developed with WWF-Romania, the Bucharest-based bank said in a release on Monday, detailing that its cooperation with WWF-Romania began in 2010, with the launch of the WWF Bonus Card, which allowed cardholders to direct 0.3 percent of their purchases to WWF projects. Through this initiative, the bank contributed EUR 500,000-plus to essential actions carried out by WWF for the conservation of the environment in the Carpathian Mountains and along the Danube, supporting at the same time the sustainable development of local communities.The allocated funds allowed WWF-Romania to carry out a series of impactful projects, including: the improvement of the Forestry Code: Initiatives aimed at combating illegal logging and reducing deforestation; the WeWilder Campus - contribution to the sustainable development of the Armenis community (Caras-Severin County); the first BearSmart City - implementation of intelligent solutions to promote the peaceful coexistence between humans and bears; the bison reintroduction initiative, in collaboration with Rewilding Europe; ecological restoration in the Danube Delta, in Mahmudia, Tulcea County.Garanti BBVA is part of Garanti BBVA Romania Group, along with Garanti BBVA Leasing, Garanti BBVA Credite de Consum and Garanti BBVA Fleet Management. Garanti BBVA Romania is owned by Garanti BBVA, the second largest privately-owned bank in Turkey in terms of consolidated assets. The Spanish financial group Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA) is Garanti BBVA's majority shareholder.WWF has been activating in Romania since 2006 to protect the wild environment in the Carpathian Mountains and along the Danube, being involved in projects related to protected areas, waters, forests, brown bears, the Danube Delta, sturgeons.
The exhibition RomanIa – Identity representation of traditional dress in art, currently on view at the National Museum of Art of Romania (MNAR), gathers a variety of artistic representations of the traditional blouse ia, from painting and sculpture, to drawing, photography, installation, film, music, posters, fashion, books, albums, and more. It includes works by Henri […]
Over 136,000 non-EU citizens held residence permits for employment in Romania at the end of August this year, most of them coming from Nepal, Sri Lanka, Turkey, Moldova, and India, and two out of three immigrants live in Bucharest, Ilfov, Constanța, Timiș, and Cluj, according to a study conducted by the Economic and Social Council. […]
Romanian prosecutors conducted house searches in 12 locations in Bucharest and two in Târgu Mureș on Wednesday, November 26, in a case targeting former employees of bankrupt insurer Euroins. Specifically, the searches targeted 10 individuals who held executive management positions within Euroins, as well as the headquarters of legal entities controlled by the Bulgarian shareholders […]
Prices in Bucharest’s premium residential market have doubled over the past few years, reaching record highs amid a severe shortage of supply in the city’s most exclusive neighborhoods, Cushman & Wakefield Echinox said. Areas such as Primăverii, Kiseleff, Aviatorilor, and Dorobanți continue to dominate demand. Over the past 2 or 3 years, prices for premium […]
The Romanian Consulate in New York shared on social media the story of George Pomuț (George Pomutz, born Gheorghe Pomuț), the Romanian-American who facilitated the sale of Alaska to the US. Despite his role in US history, the Romanian is largely unknown today, the Consulate noted. Pomuț was born in the Hungarian town of Gyula, […]
Shares of Cris-Tim Family Holding (BVB: CFH) began trading on the Bucharest Stock Exchange on November 26 after an IPO worth RON 454.35 million (EUR 89.3 million) conducted last month. Cris-Tim is now the largest entrepreneurial company in the food sector on the BVB Main Market. The funds raised from institutional and over 8,000 retail […]
