UniCredit Bank Romania, a subsidiary of the Italian group of the same name, has decided to distribute to its shareholders (the Italian parent group primarily) some 91% of last year’s net profit as dividends, namely about RON 584 mln (EUR 117 mln). This proposal, inked by the management of UniCredit Bank Romania, is to be discussed by the bank's shareholders at the Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders scheduled for April 6, 2022, Ziarul Financiar reported. UniCredit wants to reinvest only RON 22.9 mln to strengthen its capital base and the solvency ratio. The bank reported a net profit of RON 639 mln (EUR 128 mln) for 2021. The Italian group UniCredit reported for 2021 a net profit of EUR 170 mln from its operations in Romania, increasing by about 81% compared to the consolidated earnings in 2020, according to the financial results announced in Milan in February. On the Romanian banking market, at the end of 2020, UniCredit Bank ranked sixth in the top by assets, with a market share of 8.11%.
Representatives of Romania’s main education trade union federations protested on August 4 for the fourth consecutive day in front of the Ministry of Education and Research, opposing austerity measures introduced under Law 141/2025, which came into force on August 1,
The Declic Community has submitted a petition signed by roughly 90,000 Romanians to the Presidential Administration, calling on president Nicușor Dan to initiate a national referendum on the reform of special pensions. The civic group is demanding that all pensions follow the contributory principle and that the retirement age be the same for all professions, […]
Besides 5.5 GW of installed solar and wind power units already in use, Romania's market regulator ANRE has approved the construction of new units with a combined capacity of nearly 6 GW, which could double the contribution of the green energy (hydro not included) from 20% currently to 40%, according to Ziarul...
Romania’s Ministry of Energy informed on Monday, August 4, that it has authorised OMV Petrom to temporarily use 80,000 tonnes of crude oil and 30,000 tonnes of diesel out of its reserves to offset the effects of refusing two ships carrying a total of 180,000 tonnes of contaminated Azeri crude oil. Minister Bogdan Ivan declared […]
In a first move of this kind on the Romanian capital market, the five investment funds resulted from the mass privatisation scheme in the 90’s – Lion Capital, Evergent Investments, Transilvania Investments, Longshield Investment Group, and Infinity Capital (directly or through subsidiaries) – jointly financed, in full, the EUR 100 million bond issue of real […]
By July 23, the Treasury had borrowed RON 28.93 billion (EUR 5.6 billion) from households this year, a share of 16.7% in the total public financing undertaken by the government to cover the record financing needs, according to data published by the Ministry of Finance and compiled by Cursdeguvernare.ro. The...
