♦ Romania's largest loan through external private placement, of 1 billion euros, had Bank of America as a arrangement.
Large foreign investment banks have borrowed Romania this year, which sends a strong reliable message. Giants such as Bank of America and Goldman Sachs can be found alongside Deutsche Bank AG, ING Bank and UniCredit Bank on the list of banks that have been involved this year in the six loans made by private placements on foreign markets in a cumulative value of almost 3 billion euros (2.8 billion euros), as indicated by the Ministry of Finance. The involvement of some international banking giants brings extra credibility for Romania on foreign markets, very necessary considering that the Ministry of Finance needs important financial resources to finance the budget deficit, which will pass this year of 8.4% of GDP, as well as for the refinancing of the public debt, which exceeded 1,000 billion, and has a large need, energy and other important projects. External private placement is the new way to borrow the Ministry of Finance, besides the programs of bonds in euros and dollars. Ştefan Nanu, the general director of the State Treasury, spoke for the first time about attracting funds through external private investments, in the form of a loan at the ZF Capital Square 2025 conference, claiming to see a super positive feeling to foreign investors. Romania's largest loan by external private placement, of 1 billion euros, had Bank of America as a arrangement, this being signed in July 2025 and due in August 2030, the interest being Euribor at 6 months plus 2%, ie around 4%, as indicated by the data of the Ministry of Finance. With the help of Goldman Sachs in the position of arrangement, three loans were taken this year by the Romanian state by external private placement, with a cumulative value of 800 million euros. Also, August brought two more loan transactions for Romania through external private placement. A transaction was paraphrased on August 1, 2025, in the amount of 500 million euros, where Ing Bank and UniCredit Bank, and another transaction paraphrased on August 18, 2025 and due in August 2032, that is, over 7 years, which also targeted a loan of 500 million euros, and Arrange in this case was the German bank Deutsche Bank Ag. And such loans could continue in view of the official Visit of September of the Minister of Finance, Alexandru Nazare, at Washington DC, where he met with representatives of the largest banks in the world, Bank of America, Citibank, Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan, essential partners in the implementation of the Sovereign Financing Plan. Romania managed last week to borrow from the foreign markets and with 4 billion euros through Eurobonds, so that the total amount taken through external bonds this year reaches about 16 billion euros. In recent years, Romania has become an increasingly important client for the big investment banks, reaching the constant issuer of external bonds, especially on the euro, but also in dollars, which allowed to borrow on more and more advantageous terms sometimes.
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