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Protests marred by violence in Romania [Jan 16, 2012] ROMANIA'S capital Bucharest was rocked by violent protests against the government's austerity measures at the weekend, leaving 60 people injured and dozens of banks and stores damaged. [via YahooNews] More >>

Protests marred by violence in Romania [Jan 16, 2012] ROMANIA'S capital Bucharest was rocked by violent protests against the government's austerity measures at the weekend, leaving 60 people injured and dozens of banks and stores damaged. [via YahooNews] More >>

Romanian President Declared Dead by E-mail Scam [May 31, 2011] BUCHAREST, ROMANIA--(Marketwire - 05/31/11) - A recently discovered spam wave banks on Romanian president's image to help spread a malicious bot allowing its creators to take control over the infected systems. The unsolicited e-mail relies on a classic combination of social engineering tricks: promised photo content and awe-inducing events, says specialists from Bucharest-based antivirus ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Subscribe to RSS [May 31, 2011] Four of the banks that have the largest exposure to Greece?s sovereign debt have a presence in Romania too. [via YahooNews] More >>

BCR?s Bruynseels: The banks won?t leave Romania [Nov 07, 2010] Dominic Bruynseels, the CEO of the Romanian Commercial Bank (BCR) holds the view that there will not be many banks to get out of the Romanian banking market given Romania?s economy being attractive in the long run. [via YahooNews] More >>

Balkan, Hungarian Banks Are East Europe?s Riskiest, Fitch Says [Oct 22, 2010] Romanian, Hungarian and Bulgarian banks are the most vulnerable in eastern Europe to any renewed crisis as the volume of bad loans remains high and sluggish economic growth curtails lending, Fitch Ratings said. [via YahooNews] More >>

Romanian Ministry to Pick Eurobond Lead Managers in September, People Say [Aug 17, 2010] Romanias Finance Ministry will select banks by next month to manage its sale of as much as 7 billion euros ($9 billion) in Eurobonds, according to two people briefed on the plan. [via YahooNews] More >>

Rising Danube threatens Romanian city [Jul 05, 2010] Romanian authorities were stacking sand bags Monday along a 4.5-kilometer (2.8-mile) dike to prevent the river Danube overflowing its banks and flooding the city of Galati. Deputy mayor Mircea Cristea said parts of the city of 300,000 people could be flooded... Romania - Danube - Flood - Gala?i - Romanian language [via YahooNews] More >>

Rising Danube threatens Romanian city [Jul 05, 2010] Romanian authorities were stacking sand bags Monday along a 4.5-kilometer (2.8-mile) dike to prevent the river Danube overflowing its banks and flooding the city of Galati. Romania - Danube - Gala?i - Romanian language - Galati [via YahooNews] More >>

Romanian authorities step up efforts to prevent flooding of major city on Danube [Jul 05, 2010] BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) Romanian authorities were stacking sand bags Monday along a 4.5-kilometer (2.8-mile) dike to prevent the river Danube overflowing its banks and flooding the city of Galati. [via YahooNews] More >>

Rising Danube threatens Romanian city [Jul 05, 2010] Romanian authorities were stacking sand bags Monday along a 4.5-kilometer (2.8-mile) dike to prevent the river Danube overflowing its banks and flooding the city of Galati. [via YahooNews] More >>

Romanian authorities step up efforts to prevent flooding of major city on Danube [Jul 05, 2010] BUCHAREST, Romania - Romanian authorities are stacking sand bags along a 4.5-kilometre (2.8-mile) dike to prevent the river Danube overflowing its banks and flooding the city of Galati. [via YahooNews] More >>

Romanian authorities step up efforts to prevent flooding of major city on Danube [Jul 05, 2010] BUCHAREST, Romania - Romanian authorities are stacking sand bags along a 4.5-kilometre (2.8-mile) dike to prevent the river Danube overflowing its banks and flooding the city of Galati. [via YahooNews] More >>

Nine O'Clock [Jun 14, 2010] Banks to closely watch todays no-confidence vote. Local bank officials are not staking on the Government being toppled by the no-confidence motion, banking environment representatives stated, quoted by HotNews.ro. [via YahooNews] More >>

Farmers will block county roads if govt cuts off subventions [Jun 10, 2010] The objective is leading agriculture to bankruptcy and having the farms sold for nothing by the banks, turning Romania into a commodity market, the president of Agrostar, Stefan Nicolae, argues. [via YahooNews] More >>

Romanian Orthodox Church to borrow 200 million ($245 million) for cathedral [Jun 03, 2010] BUCHAREST, Romania - A church official says the Romanian Orthodox Church will borrow 200 million ($245 million) from banks to build a controversial cathedral. [via YahooNews] More >>

Nine O'Clock [Jun 01, 2010] Difficulties in Greece have had no powerful direct effects on local banking sector. Hellenic banks in Romania report total profits of over EUR 32.5 M in Q1 of 2010, Hotnews reports. [via YahooNews] More >>

Romanian prosecutors crack down on Internet fraud targeting US banks [May 10, 2010] BUCHAREST, Romania - Prosecutors are cracking down on Romanians who allegedly stole money from Americans by cloning the websites of U.S. banks. [via YahooNews] More >>

Romanian prosecutors crack down on Internet fraud targeting US banks [May 10, 2010] BUCHAREST, Romania - Prosecutors are cracking down on Romanians who allegedly stole money from Americans by cloning the websites of U.S. banks. [via YahooNews] More >>