Adrian-Cătălin Bulboacă, CFO Business Mark Bucharest, April 2024
“Commercial banks were extremely busy last year with restructuring the loan portfolio, compared to granting new loans, although, in general, banks have very high liquidity. The Romanian banking system exceeds profitability and solvency, but this was not automatically found in the market. The question arises: is it easier to turn to 6%, offered by the Ministry of Finance, where the risk is zero? What I have noticed, apart from the banks’ policy of the last year, is that there is a fantastic appetite for work, especially at the level of entrepreneurs. We are talking about the willingness to invest in projects of tens, even hundreds of millions. We are talking about the desire to increase the production capacity by increasing the source of fire.”