Banca Transilvania (BT), the largest bank in Romania, joins the National Confederation for Women Entrepreneurship – CONAF. CONAF supports and promotes women’s entrepreneurship, gender equality and equal opportunities. The organization identifies, centralizes and proposes solutions to the problems of the entrepreneurial environment.

Cristina Chiriac, President of CONAF: “We want to build a Romania in which there are no gender differences, but a fair partnership that allows the integration of the perspective of women’s rights and equal opportunities in public policy making and ensuring the representation of women at all levels the decision-making process. In CONAF we have company members who support us in the actions taken to recover the gender gaps and to encourage female entrepreneurship.”

Daniel Szekely, Executive Director of SME & Microbusiness, Banca Transilvania: “Entrepreneurship development is based on either opportunity or necessity. We want more and more women with entrepreneurship to be in the first category because it is based on the desire to progress. Gender equality, women’s economic independence, participation in social and family life are essential for the sustainable growth of any economy. “

In almost 35 percent of the companies with an account at Banca Transilvania, the administrators are exclusively women.