Financial

The IPO (Initial Public Offering) run by Adeplast, the Romanian market
leader in construction materials field, is in the spotlight of the
local stock market. The offering is the first one in the Romanian
private sector in the last five years, as well as the first one in which
all subscriptions are revocable.Razvan Pasol, President at
Intercapital Invest, the company assisting the offering, together with
BCR, also stresses the importance of AdePlast's IPO: 'The AdepLast's
initial public offering is one of the most important stock events in the
last years. Through AdePlast's listing we show that powerful Romanian
companies are able to finance their development through the capital
market as well.(...) He hope that other successful Romanian contractors
will follow AdePlast.'Being launched on October 2, it will be open
until October 15, the company planning to sell 16.5 million shares
priced at RON3.52 to RON4.06 in order to possibly attract up to RON66.7
million (about EUR15 million)....more »

Proprietatea Fund (FP) has announced its intention to initiate a second
public offering through which will redeem about 600 million shares from the
fund's shareholders....more »

The
sale of the Romanian unit of the largest Portuguese bank listed on
the stock is included in the BCP's restructuring plan. “The
plan foresees the sale of BCP’s operation in Romania in the
mid-term, as well as the sale of the bank’s shareholding in Piraeus
Bank, acquired as part of the sale of Millennium Bank Greece,” BCP
said in a statement....more »

Romania’s Nuclearelectrica nuclear national
corporation has started an initial public offer (IPO) through which will
sell a 10 per cent stake in-state owned. ...more »

Romania raised EUR1.5 billion in a seven-year
euro-denominated bond transaction arranged by Citigroup, HSBC, Deutsche
Bank and Societe Generale.
The said amount was raised at 295 points over the
reference mid-swap rate which at this point is around 1.825%, meaning that the
yield of the bonds is 4.77%. Also, the order books amounted to EUR6.2
billion, exceeding more than four times the maximum amount targeted by the Romanian Ministry of Finance. Up to this point, Romania has sold nearly EUR
7 billion in leu-denominated notes and around EUR1.4 billion in three
euro-denominated auctions....more »

Despite the losses reported by the financial and banking sectors over the past years, the foreign shareholders of banks, insurers and leasing companies of Romanian subsidiaries allocated EUR 240 between in January and July 2013 to capital increases...more »

The first seven months of 2013 saw a decrease of
over 30 percent in the foreign direct investment (FDI) figures
hitting an almost all times low. In 2012, the volume of FDI in Romania
amounted EUR 1.6 billion, the minimum of the past ten years....more »