Most probably, the lenders will ask again for a reduction of their commitments regarding the total exposure to Romania, the same sources said.
After sealing the loan agreement with Romania, the IMF and the European Commission obtained the written agreement of the parent banks of the country’s top nine lenders that they will keep their exposure to Romania to the levels agreed at the end of March 2009.
In August 2009, IMF said the banks reaffirmed their commitments to keep overall exposure to Romania to the end-March level and to maintain their subsidiaries’ solvency ratio above 10%.
The nine parent banks are Erste Group Bank, Raiffeisen International, EFG Eurobank, National Bank of Greece, UniCredit Group, Societe Generale, Alpha Bank, Volksbank, and Piraeus Bank. Their market share amounts to around 70% of Romanian banking system.