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Starting Wednesday, February 22, 2023, investors on the Bucharest Stock Exchange will be able to trade a new fund that tracks an index of the stock market (an exchange traded fund - ETF), namely the ETF Energie Patria -Tradeville.

CEC Bank, the bank with the longest history in the financial-banking market in Romania, which started to operate in 1864, is listing on Friday (Feb 17), the first two bonds issued and denominated in RON and EUR, totalling over RON650 million, on the Main Market of the Bucharest Stock Exchange.

Exonia Holding, a group that includes the biodegradable paper packaging manufacturer by the same name, plans to list on AeRO market of the Bucharest Stock Exchange, following a private placement in September and October this year, says founder and CEO Tiberiu Stoian.

SafeTech Innovations, a Romanian-held cybersecurity company, received approval from the Financial Supervisory Authority (ASF) on Tuesday to transfer from the AeRO market to the main segment of the Bucharest Stock Exchange.

The year 2022 saw an average daily traded volume of all instruments on the Bucharest Stock Exchange of RON96.8 million (EUR19.6 million), having increased for the third year in a row.

E-learning company Ascendia (ASC.RO), listed a new bond issue on Bucharest Stock Exchange’s Multilateral Trading System on Tuesday.

The coming period will be a busy period for institutional investors as two banks, Banca Comerciala Romana and UniCredit Bank, are expected to release bond issues they will later have listed on the Bucharest Stock Exchange.

Agricover Holding SA on Friday informed investors that it had appointed WOOD & Company Financial Services a.s. to advise it in exploring opportunities to raise capital to finance the growth plans, including but not limited to a potential initial public offering of shares in Romania, followed by the listing of shares on the Bucharest Stock Exchange.

The 20 companies whose shares are included in the main BET index of the Bucharest Stock Exchange ended the first nine months of 2022 with a combined net profit of RON21.7 billion (over EUR4 billion), up 111% year-over-year, as per calculations by Ziarul Financiar (ZF) based on data aggregated by brokerage firm Goldring.

Record number of investors on the stock exchange: the number of direct investors at the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) is continuously increasing for the 11th consecutive quarter and reached 128,000 investors for the first time, according to data from the Investor Compensation Fund (FCI) at the end of the first nine months of 2022.

The second issue of Golden Foods Snacks corporate bonds, worth EUR1.1 million, starts trading on the Multilateral Trading System (SMT) of the Bucharest Stock Exchange on Monday (Nov 14) under the stock ticker GFS25.

Raiffeisen Bank, a major player in Romania’s banking sector, is listing on Wednesday (Nov 2) its second issue of sustainable bonds worth RON325.5 million, on the Bucharest Stock Exchange.

BCR, the second largest lender in Romania by assets after Banca Transilvania, has taken a RON334 million bond issue to the Bucharest Stock Exchange, which processed it on Tuesday. The issue has a six-year maturity (2028).

More than 1 million transactions were carried out on the regulated market of the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) between January and August 2022, 42% more than 715,000 transactions performed between January and August 2021.

Lender Raiffeisen Bank listed on the Bucharest Stock Exchange on Wednesday (Aug 31) the first sustainability bonds issue worth RON500.85 million.

Meta Estate Trust, a holding company operating in the real estate sector, on August 29 entered the equity segment of the AeRO market which is the Multilateral Trading System of the Bucharest Stock Exchange.

The liquidity recorded at the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BSE) remains high on several pillars after the first half of the year saw significant increases. Still, in July the liquidity returned to summer levels as investors and financial analysts were waiting for the end of the financial reporting season to have a first indication of how Romanian listed companies would perform this year, BSE said in a statement.

Swiss Capital, Banca Comerciala Romana (BCR) and BT Capital Partners were the most active brokers at the Bucharest Stock Exchange in the first seven months of 2022, jointly accounting for 56.6% of total intermediations, respectively brokered deals worth little over RON10 billion, as per calculations by Ziarul Financiar (ZF) daily based on stock market data.

State-owned company Salrom, the only salt producer in Romania, could be listed on the Bucharest Stock Exchange between April and May 2023, according to economy minister Florin Spataru.

Raiffeisen Bank, key player in the Romanian banking sector, is listing a new issue of green bonds, worth RON525 million, at the Bucharest Stock Exchange, on Friday (June 24).