Volksbank

Ljubljana, 16 June – Finance reported on Wednesday that the Serbian AIK Banka is close to signing a deal to buy all of Russian Sberbank’s operations in Southeast Europe, including those in Slovenia. A potential merger of Sberbank in Slovenia and Gorenjska Banka, which is owned by AIK, would create the third largest banking group in the country.

In a first such move in Romania, Volksbank on Tuesday started to contact its customers with loans in Swiss francs to present them an offer to convert their loans into lei, Romania's national currency.

The National Integrity Agency (ANI) is checking the personal fortune of the Governor of the National Bank of Romania (BNR) Mugur Isarescu, BNR Spokesman Dan Suciu reports.

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