The study analyzes the recent legal act regarding the consumer protection in relation to professionals, with particular application to the relationship bank – consumer and to the efficiency of the and alternative dispute resolution mechanism between them in terms of its aptitude to be an effective remedy for the consumer credit indebtedness. ...

Background: On 15 January 2015, the Swiss National Bank announced that the measures established on September 11, 2011, when it had decided to support a franc exchange rate of 1.20 francs per euro, would be changed. As a result, the exchange rate of the franc in Romania raised from 3.7 lei / franc, on 14.01.2015, to about 4.6 lei / franc, on 23.01.2015, thus surpassing the euro’s exchange rate.This event has put great financial pressure o...