Finance news covering banks, financial institutions, investments, capital markets, fintech, interest rates and financial sector developments in Serbia and Southeast Europe.
Serbia’s SME investment-finance market is broadening beyond conventional bank lending, as new EBRD-backed leasing facilities inject fresh capital into machinery, equipment and green technology...
Serbia’s effort to revive its capital market is moving into a more demanding phase, with several companies preparing corporate bond issues before the end...
Serbian bank lending accelerated sharply in August, led by households, as consumer and mortgage borrowing expanded at close to 20% year on year, reinforcing domestic...
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has opened a €25 million-equivalent dinar factoring facility with UniCredit Bank Serbia, expanding local-currency working-capital finance for Serbian companies as borrowing...
The National Bank of Serbia (NBS) has sent draft amendments to its governing law to the European Commission for review, advancing legal changes intended to align...
Serbia has opened its domestic-currency government bond market more directly to international investors through Euroclear, a structural reform that could broaden demand for dinar...
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...
