Finance news covering banks, financial institutions, investments, capital markets, fintech, interest rates and financial sector developments in Serbia and Southeast Europe.
Slovenia’s NLB Group has completed the integration of Serbia’s former Komercijalna Banka, renaming NLB Komercijalna Banka as NLB Banka from September 1 and closing a multi-year consolidation of one of...
Serbia will make its long-term dinar-denominated government bonds available through Euroclear Bank from Sept. 1, giving international investors direct access to local-currency sovereign debt through...
Serbia has crossed a symbolic threshold in the long effort to reduce the financial system’s dependence on the euro, with household savings denominated in...
Serbia's banking industry has crossed an important digital threshold. Mobile banking is no longer an alternative distribution channel sitting beside traditional electronic banking. It...
Serbia’s financial sector is presenting two very different pictures of modernisation.
On the conventional measures of resilience — capital, liquidity, profitability and credit quality —...
A proposed €127.5 million financing package involving EBRD and Banca Intesa Serbia illustrates how small and medium-sized companies are increasingly being financed through partnerships between international...
Serbian companies may find credit less difficult to obtain than in many European markets, but banks are signalling that the period of broadly expanding...
Serbia’s corporate credit market is moving into a more difficult phase. Companies are asking banks for more money precisely as banks become less willing...
Serbia’s expanding export base offers banks a sizeable working-capital opportunity, but the definitive EU carbon-border regime is changing which receivables remain bankable, which industrial...
Serbia has the talent, payment infrastructure and export capacity to build a serious fintech industry. Its next challenge is turning those advantages into globally...
A compact group of profitable lenders controls most financial assets. SEPA, open banking and consolidation will sharpen competition, but they will not quickly dislodge...
Germany's development bank turns federal policy into long-tenor capital for energy, cities and small companies. The money is concessional in design, but strategic in...
Euro transfers became faster in May. The larger disruption comes from open banking, consumer-rate caps and a fintech sector learning to compete for the...
Central-bank currency purchases and government borrowing lifted the reserve stock, strengthening Serbia’s external buffers but complicating the headline improvement
Serbia’s foreign-exchange reserves rose to a...
