Press releases

• Alongside BVB, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), Banca Transilvania and KPMG Romania contributed on different topics to the International Investors Guide
• Adrian Tanase, BVB CEO: We aim to make the local capital market even more attractive to foreign investors by improving market mechanisms and introducing new financial instruments
• Lucian Anghel, BVB President: One of the best business cards for Romania is the capital market itself, which has generous dividend yields and ranks first considering the growth pace reported by the main indices of the stock exchanges within the European Union

• Romania ranks first in the European Union considering the growth rate reported by the main indices of the EU capital markets between January and March 2018
• Adrian Tanase, BVB CEO: Bucharest Stock Exchange reached an 11-year high in the first quarter, as the interest for the capital market revamped among investors
• Lucian Anghel, BVB President: The very good financial results reported by the vast majority of listed companies and generous investors' dividends, coupled with positive economic prospects, have supported the upward trend in the stock price of listed companies

• This year edition of "Fluent in Finance" program will include several free of charge seminars, which will unfold nationwide between April and December
• Adrian Tanase, BVB CEO: We will have more investors as the level of financial literacy increases and one of the objectives is to have as many Romanians as possible keep their savings in the capital market
• Lucian Anghel, BVB President: Through "Fluent in Finance", we promote responsible investments and the capital market among individual investors in Romania

• The launch of InvestingRomania and Fluent in Finance platforms and several 7/24 Capital episodes are among the most viewed videos
• People interested in capital markets brought the watch-time to over one million minutes of financial education and more than half a million views for the YouTube channel of the Bucharest Stock Exchange in the past two years
• Adrian Tanase, BVB CEO: We plan on making the capital market increasingly accessible to a broader audience, regardless of how well it is acquainted to the financial field
• Lucian Anghel, BVB President: Increasing the financial literacy rate is a continuous process, that we constantly support through multiple educational initiatives

• BVB and the members of the Nomination Committee have announced the 50 companies that will enter the final stage of Made in Romania - 2^nd edition
• People can directly send their favourite company to the final stage by casting their vote on www.bvbleague.ro/vot until April 3rd

• BET index surged by 9% after the first two months of 2018, the largest growth rate reported among the main indices of the European Union
• Investors intensified activity on BVB: the average daily traded value for equities exceeded EUR 12.7 million
• Companies listed on the local stock exchange saw capitalization spring to new record highs of EUR 39 billion
• Adrian Tanase, BVB CEO: The growth rates earlier this year came as listed companies announced strong financial results and significant dividends
• Lucian Anghel, BVB President: The Romanian capital market held ground against one of the largest falls the US markets had experienced in a decade

• Nikolay Vassilev, Executive Director Expat AM: We have identified Romania as one of the very attractive markets with strong potential – both in terms of price appreciation and possible new listings
• Lucian Anghel, BVB President: It is a premier for the Romanian capital market that an ETF having as underlying the BET-BK index of BVB is launched and traded on a foreign trading venue

• BVB and its partners handed 19 awards during this year’s edition of the Inauguration of the Stock Exchange Year, which was held at the Romanian Athenaeum
• Adrian Tanase, BVB CEO: More and more private companies have started going public and this creates the premises for the development of the stock exchange
• Lucian Anghel, BVB President: 2017 was a great year for the Romanian stock exchange, which saw IPOs of over RON 1 billion and a good dynamic for corporate bonds

• Victor Bostan, Purcari: Today we begin a new chapter for Purcari, continuing on our roadmap to becoming the undisputed wine champion in Central and Eastern Europe
• Lenna Koszarny, Horizon Capital: Purcari Wineries has made history today with the first public listing by a Moldova-based company on Bucharest Stock Exchange
• Lucian Anghel, BVB: The example set by Purcari should be followed by all companies that want to become leaders in their business field

• Lucian Anghel, BVB President: The total trading value for equities exceeded EUR 200 million in January, amid increased investor activity
• Adrian Tanase, BVB CEO: We have a journey ahead to reach our maximum potential when it comes to market turnover. On the other hand, we are optimistic as more and more companies are interested in listing on BVB

• Ion Sterian, Transgaz General Manager: We have investment projects worth more than EUR 1.6 billion, which once completed will make Transgaz one of the top four energy companies in Europe
• Dumitru Chirita, ANRE President: The BRUA project and the interconnection with the Republic of Moldova can be a guarantee that Romania is a pole of stability in the energy field
• Lucian Anghel, BVB President: We want to see as many companies as Transgaz getting listed and become regional leaders. To support the development of Romanian companies, the Government can apply for an EU fund incentive to cover 50% of the listing cost
• Adrian Tanase, CEO BVB: The company where the majority shareholder is the Romanian state is now worth almost RON 5 billion, 55% more than 10 years ago. Transgaz greatly illustrates how the state can increase its wealth by listing the companies in its portfolio
• Viorel Stefan, Deputy Prime Minister: Listing on the stock exchange is an effective mechanism for transparency and reporting, a vote of trustworthiness given to the company's management to demonstrate its ability to perform

• Viorel Catarama, Elvila: We have decided to go for a technical listing to ensure maximum transparency of the company and to enable minority shareholders to trade their assets within an organized and efficient framework
• Adrian Tanase, BVB: The continuation of company listings on the stock exchange is essential for increasing the investors' interest in the capital market and implicitly for growing the level of turnover in the market
• Octavian Dragolea, IFB Finwest: We're glad we managed to bring Elvila to BVB and that we opened the listing season of 2018 on the stock exchange

• BVB extends by two weeks, until February 16^th, the nomination phase for the second edition of Made in Romania, due to the high interest for this project
• Entrepreneurs from all over the country have registered their businesses on www.bvbleague.ro to enter the BVB League

Adrian Tanase, BVB CEO:

• "The main goal of my term is to make the stock exchange reach its maximum potential in terms of turnover, and this can come from three directions"
• "Promoting to the Emerging Market status will be a consequence of all these measures to increase turnover"
• "The stock exchange is being advertised as a financing option. The new message we would like to pass on is that the stock exchange is the place where business transparency translates into money"

• The public will be able to cast votes until February 15^th to decide the winners in four categories
• Overall, 19 prizes will be awarded during this year’s edition of the Inauguration of the Stock Exchange Year, which is to be hold on February 19^th
• Lucian Anghel, BVB President: We aim to acknowledge the merits and involvement of key players who turned 2017 into one of the most dynamic years in the history of Bucharest Stock Exchange

• The nominations phase of the second edition of Made in Romania begins today at www.bvbleague.ro
• BVB aims to top up impressive number of 166 nominations received in the 2017 edition of the project

• Four IPOs worth over a quarter billion euros and 9 corporate bonds issuances, in RON and EUR, took place in 2017 at Bucharest Stock Exchange
• The market capitalization of the companies listed on the Main Market of BVB exceeded a record level of EUR 35 billion
• The average trading value for all the financial instruments amounted to EUR 12.1 million last year, up by 25% as compared to 2016
• Total return indices reported outstanding growth figures: BET-TR up by 19%, BET-XT-TR up by 24%
• Lucian Anghel, BVB: The local capital market was noted in 2017 for the high number of IPOs, all four listings coming from the private sector. In a context where the cost of financing is expected to grow in 2018, more and more companies should consider listing on the stock market