Serbia news

The blue-chip index of the Belgrade Stock Exchange, the BELEX15, ended higher on Friday, lifted by gains in industrial gases producer Messer Tehnogas, insurer Dunav Osiguranje, aluminium rolling mill Impol Seval and cookware manufacturer Metalac, bourse data showed.

Serbia and Bulgaria have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on a new Gradina 2-Kalotina 2 border crossing to help ease traffic at the existing Gradina-Kalotina checkpoint, Serbia's interior ministry said.

The gross foreign exchange (FX) reserves held by Serbia's central bank, NBS, totalled 29.609 billion euro ($33.840 billion) at the end of June, down by 273 million euro from a month earlier when they reached a record-high end-of-month level of 29.882 billion euro, NBS said on Friday.

U.S.-based cybersecurity and compliance solutions provider Industrial Defender said that it has entered into a distribution partnership with cybersecurity solutions distributor Computer 2000 Bulgaria.

Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI) said it has lowered the minimum acceptance threshold in its takeover offer for Addiko Bank as it battles to take control of the Southeast Europe-focused lender with Slovenia's Nova Ljubljanska Banka (NLB).