Foreign direct investments (FDI) in Romania amounted to nearly 1.82 billion euro after ten months this year, dropping by 8.2% over the same period in 2012, according to a report released by the Central Bank. However, there’s an improvement give...more »

Romania’s central bank, BNR, is considering a diminution of the required reserve ratio in 2014 both for lei-denominated liabilities and for foreign currency liabilities, but according to Mugur Isarescu, Governor of BNR, there is nearly 2 billion of excess liquidity on the money market....more »

Proprietatea Fund (FP) sold the entire stake of the shares held in Transgaz for more than 68 million euro (303.5 million lei), according to the information available on the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) website. Its stake is equivalent to almost 15% of Transgaz capital, whose major shareholder is the Ministry of Public Finance....more »

Oltchim’s judicial administrators, Rominsolv and BDO Business Restructuring  will proceed on February 3, 2014 with the selection of the commitment offer for the acquisition of all the shares Oltchim S.A. owns in Oltchim SPV....more »

After the euphoria of the first trading days of Romgaz shares, when all investors sought to secure their profits obtained from the significant discounts they benefitted from during the IPO subscription, the trading volume of Romgaz shares on Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) exceeded the volume of traded Green Depository Receipts (GDRs) on London Stock Exchange....more »

Exports level reaches record high in October 2013 when the FOB (Free On Board) exports amounted to 4.7 billion euro. According to the preliminary estimations of INS (the National Institute of Statistics), CIF (Cost, Insurance & Freight) imports reached about 5.35 billion euro during the evaluated period....more »

GarantiBank provided a refinancing of 10 million euro to Tinmar, one of the largest private electricity traders in Romania. The amount is for a photovoltaic plant having an installed capacity of 10MW located in Bucsani, Giurgiu County, which is part of an 18.5MW solar park inaugurated this summer. This loan does not cover but 70% of the whole investment worth 15 million euro, being granted for an almost ten-year period, according to a press release from the bank....more »

Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) adjusted the composition of its indices and rebalanced them after the Index Committee meeting past Tuesday, December 3. Following the adjustment, the shares of both Romgaz (symbol SNG) and Nuclearelectrica (symbol SNN) were included in BET, BET-XT, BET-BK and, consequently, in BET-NG and BET-C indices....more »

The Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) decided to align to Europe’s major stock exchanges trading program which ends at 18:00 p.m. EET, according to a BVB’s release. BVB will extend therefore the trading program for the following financial instruments of the regulated spot market – shares, fund units and rights, from 16:45 to 18:00 p.m. starting January 3, 2014 when the first trading session of the next year is scheduled. ASF (the Financial Supervisory Authority) approved this change last week.  ...more »

One of the most dynamic investor on Romania’s real estate market, NEPI, increases its capital by approximately 50 million euro, amount needed for three possible acquisitions. The capital increase is supported through an accelerated book build process set for today and that recently closed according to an informing the company sent to Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB)....more »