04.18.2018

Transferring future private pension contributions to the public pension system would damage the capital market and hurt the country's budget deficit, financial analysts warn. more

07.21.2017

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04.18.2017

The shares of dairy producer Albalact will be withdrawn from trading on the Bucharest Stock Exchange, starting Tuesday, April 18, after the company had been acquired by French group Lactalis. more

07.03.2016

The Romanian capital market has a huge development potential provided it further takes all the right steps, considering that market capitalization currently accounts for 10.6% of the gross domestic more

06.12.2016

The Romanian capital market has real chances to meet investors’ demands in the year of the highest dividends, despite a difficult start, according to Simion Tihon, Prime Transaction broker. more

06.08.2015

The capital market can partly cover the funding gap, but there are several factors to be considered, Mircea Ursache, vice-president of Romania’s Financial Supervisory Authority (ASF), told ZF more

04.15.2015

The start of the year brought bad news for Electrica, Romania’s biggest energy distributor, which missed two acquisition opportunities that would have boosted its business and profit at one blow. more

03.02.2015

The most influential women on the Romanian capital market handle deals worth billions of lei, manage the private pensions of millions of Romanians and mutual funds or the wealth of affluent investors. more

01.20.2015

The Romanian capital market legislation is currently at emerging market level following the amendments operated in the last two years, vice-president of Romania’s Financial Supervisory Authority more

12.23.2014

Romania’s government has approved Tuesday, through emergency ordinance, the amendments to the legislation regulating the capital market, government spokesperson Corneliu Calota said Tuesday. more

11.05.2014

The Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) will remove the odd lot market segment starting December 2, that is the minimum volume of stock or bonds that can be sold or bought in a single operation, in a bid more

10.02.2014

The Bucharest Stock Exchange has 40 brokerage firms left, out of the 70 that operated on the Romanian capital market in early 2007, before onset of the financial crisis. more

05.22.2014

Investment fund Frontiers Investment Trust, managed by US giant BlackRock, the world’s biggest money manager, has come to invest EUR6.7 million in the shares of BRD, Romania’s second largest bank more

03.24.2014

The market is flush with cash and its price has never been so low. Thus, the Romanian market is not having a cash issue now, but it’s coping with a loan demand shortage. On the other hand, bonds more

03.18.2014

Ludwik Sobolewski, the chief executive officer of the Bucharest Stock Exchange, told ZF in an interview that the work group he coordinates has already prepared several “deeply thought” changes to more

01.13.2014

Romania’s Financial Supervision Authority (ASF) imposed 129 fines totally worth 4.89 million lei (slightly above EUR1 million) on capital market entities (investors, brokers, issuers) from April more

01.01.2014

2013 has been the best of the past six years for the Romanian stock exchange and most brokers are optimistic about 2014, if economic growth continues and political stability is maintained, and they more

11.27.2013

Romania’s capital market is dominated by "all kinds" of interests and the pile of regulations in the field, which date back to the 1990s, will be amended, Mircea Ursache, vice-president of the more

08.16.2013

The 10 most profitable companies on the Bucharest stock exchange obtained a combined profit of 3.7 billion lei (EUR848 million), 9.1% more than profits made in the similar period of last year. more

08.02.2013

The development of Romanian capital markets is closely linked to privatization. The Bucharest Stock Exchange (“BSE”), initially established in 1864, was re-established in April 1995, but more

01.22.2013

The inclusion of leu-denominated government bonds in an index of US bank JP Morgan led to significant inflows of foreign capital which fueled an “unexpected” decline of interest rates on more

12.17.2012

The shareholders of Romanian plastics producer Prodplast Bucuresti (PPL.RO) approved investments of up to EUR7.5 million on the capital market and in private equity funds. more

12.12.2012

The future single watchdog of Romania’s financial markets could be no more than a formal change because it is still parties who appoint the management. more

10.15.2012

The capital market got its image tarnished by the scandal of the fugitive broker Cristian Sima, even though neither the securities market watchdog CNVM, nor the Bucharest Stock Exchange, nor the local more

10.12.2012

Cristian Sima, former general manager of Romania’s monetary and commodities exchange Sibex in Sibiu (center of the country), has been missing for two weeks. more