Central and Eastern Europe

THE European Union has achieved a small, surprising success in helping Central and Eastern Europe to avoid a savage banking crisis this year. We should give it credit for that. The European Commission moved untypically fast. The big banks...

In this article: International Monetary Fund, European Union, Romania, Recession, Centre for European Reform, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and Sweden

...OF NEW ZEALAND = cash rate SWEDISH RIKSBANK = repo rate NORGES BANK = deposit rate DENMARKS NATIONALBANK = Lending rate CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE: NATIONAL BANK OF POLAND (NBP): 28-day intervention rate NATIONAL BANK OF...

In this article: Czech National Bank, Swiss National Bank, Bank Indonesia, People's Bank of China, Norges Bank, National Bank of Ukraine, Bank of Korea, and Reserve Bank of India

...how this would work out. But the transition, which has not always been easy, has made it possible for so many millions of people in Central and Eastern Europe to really have a place in charting their own future and making a claim to a...

In this article: NATO, Bulgaria, United States, Afghanistan, European Union, Democracy, and United Nations

...and systems integration will allow MYtv to become a world-class pay-TV operator. " Jeremy Maddocks, NDS Regional Director, Central and Eastern Europe, added, "With the technology from NDS MYtv will be able to offer advanced services...

In this article: CIS, South Dakota, Revenue, Carbon footprint, UK, and Ukraine

...Czech Republic by 18 Roma children who had been relegated to schools for the developmentally disabled. Today, many Roma children across Central and Eastern Europe are still relegated to such schools, because they have had no access to...

In this article: Rome, Hungary, Poverty, Open Society Institute, George Soros, World Bank, European Union, and James Wolfensohn

"This is a shocking 12 percentage point increase compared with our 2007 research (59%), and is well above the global (30%), Central and Eastern Europe (34%) and BRIC countries (34%)," the report said. The BRIC countries are Brazil,...

In this article: Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, Respondent, Recession, Transparency International, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Kenya

...Corporation (NYSE: HYC) today announced that Vienna-based Raiffeisen International Bank-Holding AG, part of RZB Group and one of Central and Eastern Europe's leading banking groups, has selected and is deploying over 30,000 high security...

In this article: Eastern Europe, Leasing, and Austria

...interaction between the bank's country-focused and industry-based M&A teams, the memo said. Dan Bailey will direct coverage for Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa, supported by Craig Reisser and Andrea Nappi.

In this article: Citigroup, Africa, and Middle East

...provider of high quality tele, data and media communication services with mobile operations in 13 markets across the Nordic region, Central and Eastern Europe and in Asia. Headquartered in Norway, the Telenor Group is among the...

In this article: Telenor, Trademark, Revenue, Denmark, Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, Securities and Exchange Commission, and Nasdaq

...neutral and removed from the sell list at Goldman Sachs. The bank cited signs of macroeconomic and credit quality stabilization across Central and Eastern Europe, which together constitute 77% of Raiffeisen's loan book exposure. Raiffeisen is...

In this article: Goldman Sachs, Hershey Co., MarketWatch, and Frankfurt