The dinar is at its lowest level since the beginning of the year, and the demand for euros has increased in exchange offices. The NBS justifies the increased demand for foreign exchange with seasonal changes, and interprets the lack of euros on the market as a reduced inflow of foreign investments.
The governor of the National Bank of Serbia, Jorgovanka Tabaković, spoke to RTS about chip inflation, the boycott of megamarkets, and movements in the euro. She did not explain why grocery items in Serbia are among the most expensive in Europe
Interest rates on permitted and non-permitted minus are limited for all banks. However, you should be careful with "hot money" when investing in the red.
Serbian citizens spent over 540 million euros on online shopping in just three months, the National Bank of Serbia announced. Serbs still shop mostly in domestic online stores, but the Chinese Temu undoubtedly had an impact on the jump in online shopping
The National Bank of Serbia reduced the reference interest rate to 5,75 percent, while the European Central Bank lowered it to 3,5 percent, so cheaper loans can be expected
The state has proposed a new law on the protection of users of financial services. One of the novelties contained in this document is a new deadline for those who cannot repay the housing loan
When making the decision, the Executive Board of the NBS took into account the multi-month downward trajectory of domestic inflation and its return to the target limits in May, in accordance with the projections, announced by the NBS
After a long time, the reduction of foreign exchange reserves was also influenced by the sale of foreign currency by the National Bank on the foreign exchange market, for 175 million euros.
Most of the fakes were dinar banknotes of 2000 dinars. Then banknotes of 1000 and 500 dinars. Expressed as a percentage, those three denominations together account for 89,50 percent of the total number of counterfeit cash detected in the same period
"Since January 2015, the Chinese yuan has been on the list of our currencies for the international market, and the NBS is considering including the Chinese currency in its foreign exchange reserves," Aleksandar Vučić said in
The National Bank limited to 15 months interest on housing loans up to 200.000 euros. After the deadline, banks will not have the right to ask citizens to compensate them for the difference
At today's extraordinary session of the Executive Board, the National Bank of Serbia made a decision on temporary measures for banks related to housing loans for citizens
On September 1, the agreement between the National Bank of Serbia and commercial banks on freezing the prices of fees and commissions expires
The National Bank of Serbia (NBS) has warned citizens not to respond to SMS messages from unknown phone numbers, lately with the area code +33. It is about fake websites that are under the control of criminals, according to the NBS
According to the May central projection, it is expected that year-on-year inflation will decline from the second quarter, and that a more pronounced decline will occur in the second half of the year, so that at the end of the year, inflation will be twice as low as in March, according to the May inflation report recently adopted by Executive Board of the National Bank of Serbia
The agency Standard and Poor's has confirmed the credit rating of Serbia at the BB+ level, which practically means that it remains at the same level as before.
During the weekend, the President made us happy with good news: we "received" one billion dollars from the United Arab Emirates, and at an interest rate that "seems like a gift". This news - not that Serbia got into debt, but that the president "did it" - hardly interests anyone.
In a message on the occasion of the jubilee at the head of the NBS, Jorgovanka Tabaković assessed that the previous ten years have shown that "we know how the country stabilizes, strengthens and develops", and that monetary stability was maintained in the conditions of three global crises - pandemic, energy and geopolitical. On this occasion, we republish the text "Typical Radical Cadre"
"For Serbia, it is not only the unfavorable increase in the price of energy products, but also that Germany, Italy and Austria, our main export markets, but also the countries from which we receive a good part of foreign investments, will be quite affected by the development of events, so that this is reflected in our economy and through the trade and through the investment channel. We will suffer inflationary pressures like everyone else, but in order to defend against higher prices on the international market, it would be good for Serbia to try to maintain all the trade relations it can in these conditions."
It is entirely possible that the Price Freeze Regulation will actually lead to shortages of the products it applies to. The panic of the Association of Serbian Citizens when they hear something like this - from vouchers for basic products, through even-odd driving systems, to bread stamps, shortages of anything and everything and empty shelves in stores
