Credit growth in Central and Eastern Europe will continue throughout 2018, thanks to a benign operating environment and stable loan performance, Moody’s Investors...
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The Estonian bank LHV is opening a branch in London. The UK Financial Conduct Authority has granted the bank approval and the financial institution will now register an...
Just 28 out of 51 directives covered by Moldova’s Priority Reform Action Roadmap for the second half of 2017 were implemented, a joint report by Expert-Grup, a think...
“In 2017, our country developed rapidly and successfully,” said President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev on January 10, during his address at a meeting of his cabinet...
Polish Bank Pekao, which returned to majority Polish ownership in 2016 and currently operates only in its home country, has announced its intentions to expand...
HSBC – the world’s seventh largest bank by total assets and the largest in Europe – announced on January 4 that it is to launch a business desk in...
The combative president of Moldova Igor Dodon potentially sparked a new political crisis on December 28 when he vetoed the appointment of seven new ministers. It is the...
The Moldovan business environment has positively welcomed a set of laws limiting state abuse of business. The initiative was led by the Democratic Party and will reduce...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded its latest review of Moldova on December 20 and immediately made available 22.2 million US dollars as part of the...
Hungarian bank OTP passed another obstacle in its quest to grow throughout CEE on December 18 when the Romanian Competition Council approved its purchase of Banca...
Having taken over a difficult role in April 2017, Jason Pellmar, head of the Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova regional office of the International Finance Corporation, the...
Goldman Sachs is expecting to hire around 250 staff in Poland, primarily in operations and technology, risk management, treasury and human resources, all back office...
Slovenia is Emerging Europe’s leader in the number of ‘hidden champions’ — 3.5 per one million inhabitants. As defined by Professor Hermann Simon, a German business...