Finance news covering banks, financial institutions, investments, capital markets, fintech, interest rates and financial sector developments in Serbia and Southeast Europe.
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...
Serbia’s May 2026 monetary indicators show rising liquidity and credit activity, alongside a persistently large foreign-currency component.
At the end of May 2026, the broadest...
Foreign investors are rebuilding positions in Serbian government securities, attracted by yields of around 5 per cent, exchange-rate stability and the country’s investment-grade rating from...
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has approved a €30 million revolving factoring facility for AikBank, creating the first local-currency operation completed in Serbia...
Serbia’s economy expanded by a real 3.6 per cent in the second quarter of 2026 compared with the same period last year, strengthening the prospect that...
Serbia’s corporate sector entered 2026 without a generalised liquidity crisis, but the aggregate figures conceal substantial funding pressure among microenterprises, textile producers, public utilities...
Serbia’s banking system entered the second quarter of 2026 with rapidly expanding loan books and historically low levels of problem credit. Domestic lending grew 17.1%...
Serbia’s headline public-debt ratio remains comparatively restrained, but the composition of that debt is moving in a less favourable direction. During the first quarter...
