OTP Bank Romania's Q1 consolidated net profit was RON two million, down 88 percent year-over-year, the financial institution said in a release on Friday.The result was influenced by the lower revenues compared to the previous quarter, the higher operating expenses, and the new tax introduced in the banking sector in 2024, which requires the bank to pay an additional 2 percent of turnover. Consequently, the payable tax is now in excess of RON 13 million compared to RON 5 million in the previous quarter.The operating profit posted for Q1 2024 was RON 45 million, by 34 percent lower compared to Q4 2023.Net interest income was 4 percent down from the previous quarter, at RON 177 million, net income from fees and commissions increased 41 percent, while other incomes were 30 percent down.The total risk cost decreased by 19 percent compared to the previous quarter, reaching RON -29 million.The volume of performing loans dipped 3 percent compared to the previous quarter, the volume of deposits decreased 2 percent from the last quarter of 2023, and the volume of corporate deposits went down 10 percent.The bank's assets expressed in accordance with the local reporting standards reached RON 19.7 billion, in line with the figure recorded in 2023.OTP Bank Romania is a subsidiary of OTP Group. After four years of steady and considerable growth in all business lines, OTP Bank Romania is moving towards a process of consolidating its portfolio and operations. In Romania, the members of OTP Group are: OTP Bank Romania, OTP Consulting, OTP Leasing, OTP Asset Management, OTP Factoring, OTP Advisors and OTP Bank Romania Foundation.OTP Group is headquartered in Hungary and has been listed on the Budapest Stock Exchange since 1995.
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 […]
