Current Account

  • Advantages
  • Characteristics
  • Benefit packages
  • Payments account with basic services

Advantages

You can perform all the banking operations you need:

  • cash collections/deposits in RON or foreign currency,
  • transfers to accounts opened with our bank or other banks, in the country or abroad, through payment orders in RON or foreign currency,
  • opening or closing term deposits,
  • foreign currency exchange operations (without a fee),
  • cash deposits and withdrawals, depending on your needs.

In case of a foreign currency payment instruction, you can choose one of the following options in regards to the commission payment:

“OUR” – all bank fees related to the issuance and processing of the payment (including the commissions of the bank /intermediary banks) are being borne by the Paying Client from the related payment account, opened with the issuing bank;

“BEN” – all bank fees (the fee of the Payer’s Bank, as well as the commissions of the bank/intermediary banks) related to the issuance and processing of the payment are being borne by the Beneficiary Client of the funds and are withheld from the ordered amount;

“SHA” – the commission of the issuing Bank is being borne by the paying Client, and the commission of the bank/intermediary banks, as well as the commission of the beneficiary’s bank are the responsibility of the beneficiary Client and are withheld from the ordered amount. The intermediary bank may withhold the related commission from the ordered amount, so that a SHA type payment becomes the BEN type payment at the intermediary bank/beneficiary.

All the payments in a foreign currency to a state within the European Economic Space – EES in a currency belonging to those states will always be processed according to SHARE (SHA) fees principle.

The Intra-Community and interbank payments on the Romanian territory in USD are made through intermediate banks in the USA that are not subject to EU regulations, so that the SHA-type payments are commissioned along the way and externally, and the processed amount is reduced by the related commission of the American bank. Payments in USD can also be ordered with the OUR option and are not charged externally by the US intermediary bank.

  • You can attach a debit card and can have permanent access to your money while through  Internet Banking service you can check up the cash available in the account, perform all operations you with, at low costs;
  • The cash available in the account is secured by the Bank Deposits Guarantee Fund of Romania, within the limit of EUR 100,000 ceiling, in RON equivalent per depositor.

You receive monthly the account statement on your e-mail address, for natural persons and daily for legal persons. To activate this option, we are waiting for you in any branch. The account statement remittance has no related costs and becomes active the next day after submitting the application in the branch. By choosing this option you will also have other benefits:

  • Time gained – you no longer have to go to the bank to take over the statements of account;
  • Easy management – you can easily archive the statements of account in electronic format (format .pdf);
  • Remittance confidentiality assured – statements of account are sent only to the specified e-mail addresses.

Characteristics

Currency: RON, EUR, USD, CHF, GBP, HUF, JPY.

Good to know

  • the account is opened for unlimited term and there are no age restrictions,
  • to open the account you only need your identification document,
  • there is no required minimum amount,
  • the interest rate is variable,
  • for the cash available in the account, the interest is 0% p.a. irrespective of the account currency,
  • for the unauthorized current account overdraft, the penalty interest is of 35% per year (0.09% per day) for the accounts in RON and of 20% per year (0.05% per day) for the account in foreign currency (irrespective of the currency type),
  • for operations run through the current account, the Bank’s List of Commissions is applied,
  • the deadlines of getting payment instructions at the desk can be consulted on the website,
  • the annual standard interest percentages applied to the account can be found on the website.

Benefit packages

Choose to receive your salary in the account and you get a package of benefits!

With a single monthly fee (depending on the chosen package) you can benefit of:

…. in addition you have ….

  • Permanent access to the cash available in the account – 0 fee on cash withdrawals at any bank’s ATM;
  • Possibility to make shopping at the POS of accepting merchants – 0 fee;
  • Discounts on lending products for the period you collect your salary with the bank;
  • Interest paid on deposits on term in RON established in the branch;
  • Possibility to remotely access your salary directly from your current account, without using the card, through Internet Banking;
  • Low fees for the transactions conducted through Internet Banking;
  • Dedicated banking adviser.

Payments account with basic services

If you do not have a payments account yet, including an account with basic services at any bank of Romania and you are a legal resident of the European Union, you can benefit now from a basic payment account in RON at costs adapted to your income level.

According to the provisions of Law 258/2017, which introduces the payments account with basic services, in order to benefit of your first account product you need justifying documents according to your income level:

  1. Vulnerable clients  financially, whose gross monthly income or gross average income obtained during the last 6 months does not exceed RON 4,073 GROSS: affidavit and evidence documents of your gross income (certificate, pension slip, etc.);
  2. Non-vulnerable clients financially, whose gross monthly income or gross average income obtained during the last 6 months exceed RON 4,073 GROSS: affidavit.

The following services are being offered for free through the payments account with basic services:

Non-banking clients
Financially vulnerable clients Financially non-vulnerable clients
(a) Opening, management and closing the account;
(b) Funds deposit into a payments account(c) Cash withdrawals at the bank’s desk or from any national ATM;
(d) The first 10 monthly payment operations performed by a client, including the payments by debit card at POS, online, direct debit, scheduled payment orders;
a) Account opening and closing;
b) Cash withdrawals at the bank’s desk or from any ATM, nationally and internationally within European Union;

You can attach a debit card and the Internet Banking service to a payment account with basic services, and the costs of these products and services are specified in the List of Commission applicable to Individuals.

Payment Account Transfer Service

If you want to transfer your payment account from another bank to Exim Banca Romaneasca, now it is easy to make the transfer by using the mobility service of the accounts.
This service is made available free of charge by the bank and can be made between payment accounts held in the same currency.

The payment services that can be transferred are direct debit mandates, scheduled payment orders and/or recurring receipts.

You can also choose to transfer your account balance, with or without closing it.

If you change your mind, you can cancel the request to change the accounts by filling in a form that must be submitted to the bank, within maximum 7 working days from the date of submission of the authorization form.