The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved a $650 million (EUR566.8 million) development policy loan (DPL) to support the Romanian Government’s efforts to restore fiscal sustainability, enable private sector-led growth and foster job creation.
Romanian lender Banca Transilvania is expanding internationally by granting financing of over EUR50 million for the development of the Hampton by Hilton Venice Isola Nuova hotel.
The IRCC, which banks use to set the interest rate for new loans taken since the spring of 2019, will stand at 5.58% a year in the second quarter of 2026 (between April 1 and June 30), lower than the 5.68% level set for the first quarter of 2026, as announced by Romania's central bank on Tuesday, March 31, 2026.
Super Technologies, a Romanian company with a unicorn statute, is expanding its operations to Greece via Superbet, the main commercial brand of the group.
Almost half of employees who participated in the latest survey by eJobs.ro, the main online recruitment platform in Romania, believe that a single source of income is no longer sufficient to ensure a decent standard of living.
Romanian authorities issued 2,386 construction permits for residential buildings in February 2026, 35% more than in January 2026 and 8.8% fewer than in February 2025, the country’s statistical office INS has announced on Tuesday, March 31.
The average number of job vacancies in Romania stood at 31 thousand in 2025, lower by five thousand than in 2024, data from the country’s statistical office INS show on Tuesday (March 31).
April 6 is the new date the meeting of Damen Shipyards Mangalia has been reconvened on for the approval of the reorganization plan.
Bucharest is increasingly emerging as a key luxury retail destination in Central and Eastern Europe, supported by rising purchasing power, growing tourism dynamics – with over one million foreign tourists spending at least one night in the Romanian capital in 2025 – and the consolidation of prime high street and premium retail locations, according to an analysis by the Cushman & Wakefield Echinox real estate consultancy company.
Globalworth, the company founded in 2013 by Ioannis Papalekas and now controlled by CPI Property Group-Aroundtown consortium, is constructing the Bucharest office building since the pandemic onset.