Global flexible working space provider Mindspace recorded an average occupancy rate of about 80% in its locations in Piata Victoriei and Pipera in Bucharest in 2025, the company said.
Household and company deposits with banks went up by 5.6% in November 2025 against the same month of 2024, reaching a total amount of almost RON650 billion as lei deposits rose by 1.4% and foreign currency ones, expressed in lei, advanced by 16%, in line with central bank data.
The annual growth pace of Romania private lending slowed down to 6.8% in November to a total amount of RON446.7 billion, after RON-denominated loans rose by 4.6% and foreign currency ones by 12.2%, in line with central bank data.
Romania managers for the December 2025-February 2026 period forecast a moderate decrease in economic activity, rising prices in retail and constructions and a headcount decline in the processing industry and constructions, in line with data published by the country’s statistics board INS.
Hidroelectrica, the crown jewel in the Romanian state’s portfolio, has published the convening notice for the Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders (AGA), a document that for the first time details the legal, financial and governance architecture of the proposed association with France’s EDF Power Solutions International for the Tarniţa Pumped-Storage Hydropower Plant (PSHPP).
Dutch group ING is in direct talks with Spanish group BBVA to see whether it can buy Garanti BBVA Romania, in a bid to more rapidly grow its foothold on the Romanian banking market and not lose ground to other banks under consolidation.