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Serbia entered 2026 with monetary policy deliberately unchanged: the National Bank of Serbia kept the key policy rate at 5.75%, maintaining the corridor with...
The most telling feature of Serbia’s credit landscape in 2025 was not stress or contraction, but hesitation. Corporate credit demand softened markedly as firms...
Serbia’s banking sector closed 2025 in a position of visible financial strength, but the composition of that strength changed materially over the year. Profitability...
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development invested more than €800 million in Serbia during 2025, marking one of its strongest annual commitments in the country to date...
Serbia entered 2026 with an unusually front-loaded reliance on the domestic dinar bond market, using January and early February to secure a substantial share...
Serbia’s announced €200 million issuance of long-dated euro-denominated government securities with a maturity in 2041 is best read as a liability-management and curve-extension transaction...
The estimated €600 million minimum requirement for upgrading industrial safety across Serbia can be transformed from a compliance obligation into a bankable, cash-flow-defensible investment...
Serbia’s national card scheme, DinaCard, has evolved from a payments-policy instrument into a material balance-sheet and competitiveness factor for the domestic banking sector. As cashless...
Manufacturers of basic pharmaceutical products in Serbia recorded strong financial results in 2024, with the sector posting solid revenue growth and rising profitability despite...
Serbia has successfully raised approximately €98.6 million through the sale of ten-year government bonds at a recent auction, according to data released by the...
An examination of official government documentation has found no publicly available evidence that the contract for the construction of Serbia’s Morava Corridor motorway has...
EU-owned and EU-supervised banks operating in Serbia are increasingly exposed to CBAM not because Serbian law imposes direct CBAM obligations on them, but because...
Regional financial group AikGroup, which includes AikBank as a core banking unit, has obtained a significant multi-year guarantee from the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), part of...
Restrictions on card payments at fuel stations operated by Naftna industrija Srbije (NIS) remain one of the most visible day-to-day effects of international sanctions on Serbia’s...