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Oradea prosecutor Alexandru Lele is the one who, in April 2001, ordered the arrest of Adrian Tărău, the son of an influential sponsor of the PSD who was also the prefect of the county, under the charge of complicity in the oil products smuggling....

The AstraZeneca Board of Directors rejected on friday the improved offer for taking over the British company by the American group Pfizer, that evaluated AstraZeneca at 63.1 billion pounds (106.5 billion dollars), considering the proposal terms...

Tudor Ciurezu, the CEO of SIF Oltenia, seems to have won the first battle in the conflict with businessman Florin Pogonaru, at least according to the way some investors are viewing the outcomes of yesterday's General Shareholder Meeting,...

The shareholders of SIF Oltenia are meeting today in the General Shareholder Meeting to approve the balance sheet, on the second convening, which could provide a picture of the strength of the factions within the company, wherein the conflict...

Accustomed as he was to the reverence that he was received with in the beginning, Ludwik Sobolewski, the CEO of the BSE, must have had a shock on Friday, at the General Shareholder Meeting, when the market community, which he remembered to be...

Reporter: Please give us more details about the international event that World Trade Center Bucharest will be hosting in the coming days.

The admirable restraint shown by market participants for more than eight months now has been broken by the president of the Association of Brokers, Dan Paul, who just couldn't take it anymore after the aberration proposed by the CEO of the...

According to the Delegate Minister for Energy, the tense situation in Ukraine is no major problem, because Romania is ready to deal with any situation. He told us in an interview that the country has enough domestically produced gas to meet...

Gabriel Dumitraşcu, the head of the Privatization Office of the Department for Energy, told us that he is more cautiously optimistic when it comes to the success of the IPOs scheduled to take place this year, in the current geopolitical and...

After the Bucharest Stock Exchange proposed the "in-house" development of a technical solution for joining "Target2-Securities" (ed. note: the single European service for cross border settlement), as they consider the investment...

Reporter: What do you view Romania like, from a political and economic point of view, when you come back?

The draft of the Law of Insolvency is at the center of a new political scandal, as it was voted yesterday in the Chamber of Deputies, despite the fact that the PNL and the PDL voted against it.

Reporter: Why did you choose to make an "analysis" of the Romanian political scene?

The Bucharest Stock Exchange may miss out on the IPO of Romtelecom, even though the hopes of the telecom operator being listed on the BSE have been fueled for years.

This week, the Government passed a bill by which CR 104 Sercaia - Hoghiz, known as the "Road of Shame", was classified from country road as national road, after the county authorities took the necessary steps for this purpose.

Ludwik Sobolewski, the CEO of the Bucharest Stock Exchange, wrote to Mircea Ursache, the vice-president of the ASF in charge of the capital market, an official letter in which he claims that the CEO and the president of the BSE (the two managers...

The AD is no longer 1686, but 2014. Unlike Sobieski, Sobolewski is no longer angry at Romanian ruler Dimitrie Cantemir, quite the contrary, he often delights in the musical art of the great European, Kantemiroglu, "Kitabu...

Dear Mr. Ludwik Sobolewski,

I've already told you that I think of myself as a chump, because I am easily fooled and I take the Bucharest Stock Exchange seriously and I can't imagine that Ludwik Sobolewski, its Polish CEO, has decided to start making fun of me...

Mircea Ursache, the vice-president of the Financial Oversight Authority (ASF), disagrees with the opinion of the officials of the BSE and considers that the CEO of the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) is part of the staff of the company.

I swear, I don't know who is making fun of who on the trivial issue of the shares bought by Sobolewski, but I don't think it's all right at all that the official website of the Bucharest Stock Exchange is used to start a polemic with...

A small article published in BURSA which concerned a minor detail - the fact that the CEO of the BSE has bought shares in the company while the regulations of the latter prohibited him from doing so - caused quite a ruckus: first of all we...

"Following the article < By buying shares in the BSE, Sobolewski has violated the Regulations of the BSE > which was published in the April 2nd, 2014 issue of BURSA, the Bucharest Stock Exchange makes the following clarifications.

The Central Depository will join the TARGET2-Securities (T2S) in the first wave, just like its management wanted it to happen, but without the new software, sources from the stock market told us.

The Romanian Bank for Loans and Investments (BRCI) wants to bring a new model to the Romanian market, according to Marinel Burduja, its CEO.

The major challenge for lenders, both locally and on a European level, is rebuilding the trust in the system, not only that of customers, but that of the state, of ratings firms, and of their employees, says Nicolae Dănilă, member on the Board of...

The problems of the private sector in Romania are the same as the ones faced by its peers in the European Union, according to the statements of Mrs Anca Laura Ionescu, secretary of state in the Ministry of the Economy, who says that in 2013 and...

The implementation of the Banking Union is likely to negatively affect the lending to SMEs, said Mirela Iovu, the vice-president of CEC Bank. There are solutions to mitigate the negative impact, such as increasing the capitalization of banks,...

The pressure of the new banking regulations in Europe will generate "moves" on the Romanian market, considers Răzvan Nan, senior manager, banking advisory at KPMG, who expects that this year we will see significant changes in the...

Any change at the bank level affects the business sector, says Adrian Timar, the administrator of Remarul 16 Februarie. He told us: "The banking system is part of the market. Any change that happens in this sector, concerning regulation, the...

Dan Paul, the president of the Association of Brokers, said that he does not believe that bank deposits will be seized to rescue the financial institutions, because it would mean a violation of human rights: "It's true that politicians...

The financial system that we have is flawed, says Daniel Dăianu, first vice-president of the Financial Oversight Authority (ASF), who mentioned that any considerations he was making on the topic were on his own behalf. In his opinion, in order to...

The Banking Union does not represent a solution to solving the problems caused by financial instability, and Romania should postpone becoming part of this structure at least until joining the Eurozone, economic analyst Călin Rechea said.

The Banking Union represents an important element of the picture of a more integrated and solid European Union, but it does not represent a magical solution for dealing with all the issues of the continent, said Guillermo Tolosa, the...

Savings from bank deposits could be transferred to the stock market, says professor Gheorghe Piperea, who considers that the fear of the bail-in could help the growth of the stock market.

The issue of the Banking Union is attracting the attention of an increasing number of players involved in the Romanian market, whether it is the authorities, representatives of lenders or of the real economy, as proven by the high number of...

The shareholders of the Central Depository are meeting tomorrow, in a General Shareholder Meeting, convened at the request of the majority shareholder, the Bucharest Stock Exchange. There is talk in the market that the event will be the stage for...

The negotiations with the Chinese party for the building of a new steam power plant in Rovinari are advanced, the investors representatives are to come in Romania in the immediate period, stated the deputy prime minister Liviu Dragnea at the...

An increasingly high number of rich Westerners are moving their money from their domestic bank accounts into exotic countries such as Singapore or Hong Kong. The exodus is happening amid fears that, after the implementation of the bail-in...

The Prime Minister Victor Ponta has been analyzing the possibility of giving up the semestral rise schedule of gas price for the industrial consumers, according to some market sources. Thus, in order to support the industry, Government would...

The Prime Minister Victor Ponta announced last night in Parliament, a number of measures by which he intends to support large energy and gas consumers to maintain their competitiveness on the European and global markets, but without providing any...