Loading ...Financial brokerage and insurance companies attracted no less than a quarter of the direct foreign investments (DFI) last year in Romania, that is 23.3% of thetotal investments on the domestic market, according to an analysis conducted together by the Romanian National Bank (BNR) and the National Institute of Statistics (INS).
Direct foreign investments stood last year at 7.25 billion euros in Romania. More than a half of such investments (51%, that is approximately 3.7 billion euros) represented the net credit from foreign investors, a third (31%, that is 2.2 billion euros) represented participations in the capital and 1.32 billion euros (18%) represent net reinvested profit).
At the same time, the Romanian National Bank (BNR) and the National Institute of Statistics have calculated the balance of direct foreign investments in end-2007 and also how much foreigners have invested in Romania so far. Thus, the total direct foreign investments in Romania in the latest 18 years stood at 42.77 billion euros, in end 2007.
From this amount, 31.50 billion euros (74%) represented participations in the share capital, with the remaining 11.27 billion euros representing net credit from foreign investors.
With regards to the orientation of the foreign investors to certain economic sectors, more significant direct foreign investments were registered in the processing industry (32.9% of the total). Other fields, which also attracted significant direct foreign investments, were in 2007: the retail and wholesale trade (14%), constructions and real estate (7.8%) and telecommunications (6.5%).
The study conducted together by the Romanian National Bank (BNR) and the National Institute of Statistics analysed also the geographical characteristics of the direct foreign investments.
Thus, more than a 5th of the direct foreign investments carried out in Romania till the end of last year came from Austria. Despite the fact that Austria reduced its weight in the total direct foreign investments in Romania injected until December 31, 2007, by 1.6%, down to 21.4%, Austria is still ranking 1st among investors in Romania, according to the report of the Central Bank.
Austria was carrying out investments worth 9.16 billion euros in Romania late last year. Out of the total 42.77 billion euros in direct foreign investments so far in Romania, Bucharest attracted almost two thirds (64.3%), more exactly 27.52 billion euros, followed from far behind by the central region (Alba-Iulia, Brasov, Covasna, Harghita, Mures and Sibiu) by 8.3%, 3.54 billion euros respectively.
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