Banca Comercial\u0103 Rom\u00e2n\u0103 (BCR), part of Austria’s Erste Group, has completed a RON 1 billion (EUR 200 million) bond issue with a seven-year maturity and a fixed annual coupon of 7.77%.<\/p>\n
The bonds were priced at 100% of nominal value, with the transaction concluded at a margin of 95 basis points above the Romanian government bond curve (ROMGB).<\/p>\n
The issue added to a series of bond placements through which BCR has raised more than RON 12 billion on the Bucharest Stock Exchange in recent years. In December 2025, the bank listed a EUR 500 million Eurobond with a six-year maturity and a fixed annual coupon of 4% for the first five years, Ziarul Financiar<\/a> reported. Earlier in 2025, BCR also issued RON 1.12 billion in local currency bonds.<\/p>\n BCR reported its net profit contracted by 19% y\/y to RON 602 million in the first quarter of 2026. Net interest income declined by 1.4% y\/y, reflecting pressure on margins in a competitive market, while net fee and commission income increased by 6.8%.<\/p>\n As of March 31, loans and advances to customers stood at RON 71.27 billion, down 2.3% from the end of 2025, while customer deposits rose by 1.8% to RON 94.8 billion.<\/p>\n The bank’s Tier 1 capital ratio reached 24.9%, well above the regulatory requirements imposed by the National Bank of Romania.<\/p>\n iulian@romania-insider.com<\/em><\/p>\n (Photo source: BCR)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Banca Comercial\u0103 Rom\u00e2n\u0103 (BCR), part of Austria’s Erste Group, has completed a RON 1 billion (EUR 200 million) bond issue with a seven-year maturity and a fixed annual coupon of 7.77%. The bonds were priced at 100% of nominal value, with the transaction concluded at a margin of 95 basis points above the Romanian government […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}