C & E Europe

Slovakia just joined a host of Central and Eastern European countries seeking to repatriate their gold reserves.

The heads of the Three Seas region exchanges - Warsaw (Poland), Prague (Czech Republic),

Hungary's OTP bank, Central Europe’s largest independent lender, purchased 96.69 per cent of the shares of Mobiasbanca, a Societe Generale’s subsidiary in Moldova. OTP acquired the Chisinau-based bank through a number of transactions.

Austrian foreign direct investment (FDI) in Central, East and Southeast Europe (CESEE) declined in 2018, but continued to earn relatively high profits, a new report from the Vienna Institute of International Economic Studies (wiiw) found.

The Czech Republic ranks as the best location for manufacturing in Europe, according to new research published by real estate services firm Cushman and Wakefield. 

Wednesday (March 27) saw the launch of trading in securities of International Investment Bank (IIB) on the Budapest Stock Exchange (BSE).

Finantsinspektsioon (FSA), Estonia's official financial watchdog, has ordered Danske Bank to close its branch in Tallinn.

Many multinational companies offer consumers in Poland food of lower quality and with different ingredients than on Western markets, Rzeczpospolita daily reported, citing Poland's Central Auditing Office (NIK). 

The total nominal value of imports of goods into Austria in the period from January to August 2018 was EUR 102.43 billion, up 5.5% on the previous year, while exports of goods rose by 6.5% to EUR 99.26 billion, according to preliminary results

Lithuania is the 14th most business-friendly country in the world, according to the World Bank’s Doing Business 2019 report.