JUNE 2013 - FEAS
JUNE 2013 - FEAS
JUNE 2013 - FEAS
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FEDERATION OF EURO-ASIAN STOCK EXCHANGES ANNUAL REPORT <strong>JUNE</strong> <strong>2013</strong><br />
BUCHAREST STOCK EXCHANGE<br />
7. Develop the dialog between BVB and<br />
relevant institutions/authorities<br />
BVB promotes a constructive dialogue with the<br />
NSC, to the end of promoting proposals aiming<br />
the development of stock exchange market.<br />
Following the meetings with the NSC members<br />
at BVB’s Board level, joint working groups were<br />
set up at executive level intended to implement<br />
the actions agreed by the senior management.<br />
In addition, regular meetings with the<br />
representatives of the relevant authorities were<br />
organized to promote strategies proposed by<br />
BVB (such as the promotion of a stimulating<br />
taxation framework for issuers and investors,<br />
the development of privatizations through stock<br />
exchange mechanisms). A success in this<br />
regard was the amendment to the Fiscal Code,<br />
by which the number of tax statements afferent<br />
to earnings/losses of value from transfer of<br />
securities (other than shares and securities for<br />
closed companies) was reduced, becoming<br />
effective starting with January 1, <strong>2013</strong>. Hence,<br />
the four quarterly statements submitted before<br />
this amendment were replaced by only one<br />
annual tax statement, the number of payments<br />
for the tax owed following such operations<br />
being also reduced.<br />
A remarkable event of the year was the<br />
partnership with the London Stock Exchange,<br />
which was marked by the official opening of a<br />
trading session at BVB followed by the official<br />
opening of a trading session at the LSE by a<br />
delegation built up of representatives of the<br />
capital market in Romania and chaired by a<br />
representative of the Government of Romania.<br />
Various events were organized for the purpose<br />
of mutual knowing, experience exchange and<br />
joint projects’ promotion.<br />
During the year, BVB organized presentations<br />
at several international events to the end of<br />
promoting the Romanian capital market, its<br />
potential and also the announced privatizations.<br />
8. Increase BVB’s educational role<br />
One of the objectives of this strategic direction<br />
is to change BVB into an opinion leader with<br />
regard to the capital market. To this end, an<br />
educational programme was designed, its<br />
beneficiaries being students, investors, issuers,<br />
companies and mass-media.<br />
The collaboration with Junior Achievement<br />
Romania, a non-profit organization which<br />
implements economic, entrepreneurial,<br />
financial and professional orientation education<br />
programmes in schools, generated several<br />
activities and events which involved the capital<br />
market, the stock exchange investments,<br />
trading competitions and official prize<br />
awarding. Hence, 4 conferences, 2 webinars<br />
were organized in the country, as well as the<br />
Job Shadow Day event for 2 high-school<br />
students wishing to become brokers. A trading<br />
competition was also organized in partnership<br />
with JAR and Tradeville, to which more than 500<br />
students participated.<br />
The collaboration with the Bucharest School of<br />
Business has led to the inclusion of the stock<br />
exchange investment among the stages of “The<br />
Apprentice” contest.<br />
The “Afterschool BVB” Programme, a new<br />
educational programme, opened the sequence<br />
of interactive practical seminars, following the<br />
interest expressed by investors for technical<br />
and practical information. The project scope<br />
for 2012 was to intensively train more than 150<br />
existing and potential investors, Wall-street.ro<br />
readers, in the field of financial instruments and<br />
stock exchange mechanisms used by BVB.<br />
BVB has organized several internship<br />
programmes of which 11 students from<br />
economic and legal areas benefited,<br />
contributing in this manner to their familiarizing<br />
with the special procedures and mechanisms,<br />
training them either for a professional<br />
orientation, or for the capacity of investor.<br />
The conferences and seminars organized by<br />
BVB or to which BVB actively participates are<br />
likely to have the largest impact, due to the<br />
opportunity of a direct dialogue with a great<br />
number of participants. In this regard, 2012<br />
was a very intense year, the 17 conferences<br />
and seminars representing a record number<br />
compared to previous years. Among other<br />
events organized by BVB or to which BVB<br />
participated as partner, the following are worth<br />
mentioning:<br />
• an educational seminar for companies in<br />
the portfolio of Fondul Proprietatea, during<br />
which a presentation of the GEO 109/2011<br />
and its effects was made (in partnership with<br />
the Corporate Governance Institute and FP);<br />
• an educational seminar for financial<br />
managers of the companies listed with BVB<br />
and of those included in FP’s portfolio (with<br />
the support of Bloomberg);<br />
• the “Capital Market Maturity” conference<br />
(organized in partnership with Wall-street.<br />
ro);<br />
• an interactive workshop regarding the DOs<br />
and DON’Ts survey on tender books and<br />
execution of public offers for state-owned<br />
companies through BVB (in partnership with<br />
OPSPI and Erste Group Bank AG).<br />
BVB has also actively participated in:<br />
events for institutional investors, organized<br />
by Wood&Company in Warsaw, by Erste<br />
Bank in Vienna and by FP in Bucharest, the<br />
“Entrepreneur, seeking financing” conference<br />
organized by Wall-street.ro, the seminar on<br />
stock exchange education, organized by<br />
Wall-street.ro in partnership with Pioneer Asset<br />
Management, the sequence of conferences<br />
organized by International Business Promotion,<br />
“New reality in business. Road toward<br />
performance”.<br />
BVB was equally concerned with continuing the<br />
series of events under the “Open Doors Day<br />
at the BVB” programme, aiming to familiarize<br />
a high number of visitors with the basic<br />
principles of the stock exchange operations,<br />
the presentations under this programme<br />
being adapted according to the age and<br />
knowledge level specific for each targeted<br />
group. The transparency level with regard to<br />
BVB’s events and activities increased, with daily<br />
communications on new products, novelties in<br />
the regulatory field, events, decisions of BVB’s<br />
Board, official openings intended to mark some<br />
events or to honor certain personalities.<br />
HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT<br />
There are more than 125 years since the first<br />
trading floor opened its doors in the centre of<br />
Bucharest, very close to the National Bank, on<br />
the 1st of December 1882. This event followed<br />
the first “Law on bourses, mercantile traders<br />
and intermediaries” enacted in 1881, following<br />
the French model. This bill was the legal<br />
framework for the functioning of the stock and<br />
mercantile exchanges in Romania.<br />
It developed into a very dynamic exchange due<br />
to the companies listed, mainly from sectors like<br />
banking, mining, oil, insurance and transport.<br />
During the wars, as the entire Romanian<br />
economy flourished, the Stock Exchange also<br />
recorded its booming period. In 1935 there were<br />
56 shares listed and 77 fixed income securities.<br />
After a peak in 1938, the Stock Exchange was<br />
closed in 1948, when the new communist<br />
regime nationalized all companies.<br />
A new beginning for the Romanian capital<br />
market was in 1994 when Romanian Parliament<br />
passed the first capital market law, setting<br />
up the legal framework for creation of all new<br />
capital market institutions.<br />
The Bucharest Stock Exchange was reestablished<br />
in April 1995, and the first trading<br />
day took place on 20 November, same year.<br />
From the beginning, the entire trading process<br />
took place in a dematerialised environment.<br />
The most recent regulations are harmonized<br />
with the latest EU legislation regarding the<br />
capital market.<br />
Institutional changes took place also during its<br />
15 years of operation. Set up in the beginning<br />
as a public interest institution, Bucharest Stock<br />
Exchange went through a demutualisation<br />
process in 2005. The BVB externalised the<br />
registry/ clearing functions and the new Central<br />
Depository was set up at the beginning of 2007,<br />
having the Exchange its main shareholder.<br />
BVB, along with the Central Depository, the<br />
Corporate Governance Institute, the newly set<br />
up Bucharest Clearing House for the derivatives<br />
market and Investors Compensation Fund, is<br />
currently part of the BVB Financial Group.<br />
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