24 apr 2014

Three local banks, Raiffeisen, Pro Credit and Garanti, are preparing 760 million lei (EUR170 million) bond issues to be listed on the Bucharest Stock Exchange. more

14 apr 2014

Mutual funds have raised 1.2 billion lei (EUR269 million) from investors in the first quarter, which was their best ever. Most money went to funds with conservative investment strategies, but more

7 apr 2014

Deals with bonds and state paper listed on the Bucharest exchange have plummeted to an average value of 560,000 lei per day, similar with the 2005 level, as the interest rates of listed bonds are so more

26 mar 2014

Only 85,300 investment accounts registered on the Bucharest bourse against a population of 21 million is the indicator best reflecting the underdevelopment of Romania’s capital market, but also the more

25 mar 2014

Very few Romanians know how to answer personal finance questions correctly, a financial literacy survey reveals. more

21 mar 2014

Franklin Templeton will get a higher fee under the new agreement to manage the EUR3.2 billion assets of Fondul Proprietatea (FP.RO) for two more years, in addition to distribution fees from the cash more

20 mar 2014

Romania’s stock market can attract significant investments by 2017, the year set as its target for joining the league of emerging markets, Bucharest Stock Exchange chief executive Ludwik Sobolewski more

19 mar 2014

Private equity fund Catalyst has bought 23% in Simartis Telecom, a solutions provider for mobile phone companies that specializes in mobile marketing. Two of the three founders of the company are more

18 mar 2014

SIF Banat-Crisana (SIF1.RO), SIF Moldova (SIF2.RO) and SIF Muntenia (SIF4.RO) plan to continue selling banking stock in 2014 and shift investments to less traditional activity fields for the regional more

14 mar 2014

The shares of the five regional investment funds (SIF) are down compared with the beginning of the year and the SIFs that announced they would not be paying any dividends suffered the most: SIF more

19 feb 2014

After Romania’s Financial Supervisory Authority (ASF)’s chairman Dan Radu Rusanu and Corneliu Moldoveanu, the ASF vice-president in charge of the insurance market, told a news conference on more

22 ian 2014

Analysts expect Fondul Proprietatea (FP.RO) price to fluctuate between 0.8 and 0.9 lei (EUR0.17-EUR0.19) per share in 2014, as the main growth drivers for the fund's stock will be the share buyback more

15 ian 2014

Six managers made the rules on the mutual fund market in 2013, raising 3.5 billion lei (EUR775 million) from investors. In 2014, the declining interests may bring another RON4 billion in net more

13 ian 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

12 ian 2014

SIFs will be able to buy shares between them and make important decisions more easily in the general assemblies of shareholders, announces Mircea Ursache, vice-president of the Financial Supervision more

9 ian 2014

The listings of Nuclearelectrica (SNN.RO) and Romgaz (SNG.RO) have generated a favorable context, but it’s not enough for the Bucharest stock exchange to be upgraded to the category of emerging more

8 ian 2014

The reduction by almost 30% of the international gold prices in 2013, a first for the past 12 years, cut deep into the value of major central banks’ reserves, which piled up during the crisis on more

8 ian 2014

Last year’s significant transactions helped the major brokerage firms that remained on the Romanian stock market recover after a few very bad years. more

6 ian 2014

Legislative moves with a sweeping impact on the Romanian capital market are likely to materialize in 2014, changing the fortunes for companies worth about 2.5 billion euros. more

20 dec 2013

The year 2013 was the year of major changes on Romania’s capital market. State-owned energy companies Nuclearelectrica and Romgaz conducted initial public offerings and raised half a billion euros more

19 dec 2013

Mutual funds attracted 3 billion lei from investors in the first 11 months of this year, a record-high amount which is double the inflow recorded in 2012.This comes as people sought more profitable more

12 dec 2013

Mutual funds in Romania ended November with record-high net inflows of 777.8 million lei (EUR174 million), the largest monthly amount ever attracted on this market. more

25 nov 2013

Keep away from government bonds because countries’ debt levels are increasingly unsustainable and allocate as much as your portfolio as possible to European and US shares with high dividend yields, more

19 nov 2013

Ziarul Financiar officially opened the trading session of the Bucharest Stock Exchange on Tuesday, November 18, 15 years from the launch of the newspaper’s first issue. The event brought together more

6 nov 2013

The main challenge for the Polish CEO of the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) is to persuade foreign investors who subscribed in the Romgaz offering through GDRs in London to open accounts and trade the more