Bucharest Stock Exchange

The Bucharest Stock Exchange (Bursa de Valori Bucuresti; BVB) is located in Bucharest, capital of Romania. It was inaugurated on 1 December 1882, in the Trade Chamber building located in Doamnei street.

In 2003 Bucharest Stock Exchange became a full rights member of the Federation of Euro-Asian Stock Exchanges (FEAS) and carried out the actions necessary for preserving its status of correspondent member of Federation of European Securities Exchanges (FESE) and World Federation of Exchanges (WFE).

On 1 December 2005 RASDAQ was merged with the Bucharest Stock Exchange, becoming one of its market sections.

In March 2006, BVB signed a cooperation agreement with Wiener Borse (WBAG) for developing the index and the index license policy; and in November 2006, BVB signed the memorandum of understanding with the Moldavian Stock Exchange.

In September 2007 the Exchange launched the derivatives market. The first derivatives available for the market participants were futures on BET and BET-FI indices.

On 1 July 2008, BVB launched two new indices: BET-XT (Bucharest Exchange Trading Extended Index) and BET-NG (Bucharest Exchange Trading Energy and Related Utilities Index). It also launched three new information product services namely: Web Mobile, Web Free Membership Application, and Corporate Data Web Services.

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