by Siana Mishkova Supported by a robust macroeconomic environment, stable fiscal conditions and buoyant consumption, Southeast Europe’s (SEE) insurance industry remained resilient to pressure stemming from the persistent record low interest rate environment, financial market volatility, stricter regulatory requirements, and … Read more

By Giedrius Daujotas, Analytics Manager at Euromonitor International Southeastern Europe (SEE) is becoming more attractive for consumer goods companies. While growth in the historic 2011-2016 period in SEE was hampered by the macroeconomic headwinds – especially in Slovenia, Serbia, and … Read more

by Julian Gikov, Aleksander Biesaga, Richard Golden, Raiffeisen Bank International Raiffeisen Bank International AG (RBI) considers Austria as well as Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) as its home market, where it is a leading corporate and investment bank. 15 markets … Read more

by Neli Vacheva, IDC Bulgaria Country Manager International Data Corporation (IDC) is a global provider of market intelligence, advisory services, and events for the information technology, telecommunications and consumer technology markets. More than 1,100 IDC analysts provide global, regional, and … Read more

Southeast Europe’s return to steady growth, though slow to affect the insurers in the region, is eventually showing in their balance sheets. Read more

Southeast Europe’s banking sector remained largely stable in 2015 and 2016 amid stricter capital requirements and low interest rate environment. Read more

After several tough years, economic activity in Southeast Europe (SEE) picked up in 2015 and continued to strengthen in 2016, supporting an improving performance of the region’s corporate sector. Read more

The report looks into the online image of SEE craft beers – in terms of both sheer popularity and users’ and experts’ opinion of their quality. Read more

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The total capitalisation of the nine SEE bourses rose 3.6% in 2015 to 103.6 billion euro, slowing from a 6.1% growth in 2014. Read more

Julian Gikov is Director at Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI), covering Southeast European M&A operations, where he has been involved in deals advisory for the last nine years. He has extensive investment banking experience in the energy, TMT, heavy industry, FMCG, and real … Read more

Subdued domestic demand and low exports, limited credit growth due to high non-performing loan ratios, market volatility and political uncertainty continued to curb the financial performance of the companies in Southeast Europe (SEE) in 2014. Overdue structural reforms weigh on the economies in the region, which failed to benefit fully from cheaper oil and the recovery of the euro area to offset the downward pressure of the Russia-Ukraine crisis. Read more

The insurance companies operating in Southeast Europe (SEE) had to cope with a restrained economic momentum in the region in 2014 when the effects of the financial crisis continued to dampen the recovery of consumer spending and overall business activity. Read more

The logistics sector in Southeast Europe (SEE) is relatively underdeveloped as compared to the rest of Europe. However, the region’s location determines its strategic role in trade within the continent, as well as between Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Read more

2014 was a limited success year for mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in Southeast Europe (SEE), but an analysis of deals already announced in 2015 indicates an improving outlook. In the past couple of years, the M&A activity in most SEE countries suffered to differing degrees from slower economic growth, the small size of the national consumer markets and political instability. Nevertheless, local specifics rather than common features tended to determine the main drivers of M&A in each country. Read more

“EU funds” is a sacred phrase in Southeast Europe (SEE). Overall, it means “hope for higher living standards”, which is actually the ultimate goal of the EU’s Cohesion Policy. Read more

Most of the lenders in the SEE TOP 100 banks ranking closed 2014 in the black and the overall result of the sector would have been slightly positive if it hadn’t been for bankrupt Bulgarian lender Corporate Commercial Bank, Corpbank, which booked a staggering loss of 2.18 billion euro. Read more

The market capitalisation of the SEE TOP 100 listed companies in 2014 rose to 46.08 billion euro, as compared to 44.7 billion euro of the entrants in the ranking a year earlier. Read more

Economies in Southeast Europe (SEE) now appear to be solidly in recovery mode, after having one of the weakest performances in the last 5 years. Read more

This survey monitors sentiment towards the events in Greece in the light of the referendum on accepting or rejecting the agreement with the country’s creditors. Social media comments, blog posts, forum discussions, and comments in news media outlets were analysed to outline public attitudes in eight countries in Southeast Europe (SEE). Read more