The Bucharest Stock Exchange SA (BVB), the most important institution of the local capital market, organizes and manages the regulated markets of financial instruments under European standards. BVB became a corporation in 2005, and listed on the stock exchange on June 2010.

BVB is part of the BET index calculation, which is the most important index of Romanian capital market. However, the company is part of other local indexes and indexes which follow the trend of other listed stock exchanges as well, like FTSE / Mondo Visione Exchanges or Dow Jones Global Exchanges.

Bucharest Stock Exchange is managing two types of markets, the Regulated and AeRo market. A company can be listed on one of this markets depending on its dimension, its eldership or the stock percentage which will be traded from its total number of stocks. Nonetheless, the admission procedures are specific for each market.

The Regulated Market

Bucharest Stock Exchange main market is the regulated market, where there are traded stocks and other financial instruments issued by Romanian or International entities, governmental bonds issued by local or national institutes from Romania or international corporative bonds, units in collective investment undertakings, structured products and ETF’s. On the regulated market there are traded the shares of some of the most well-known companies from different business sectors in Romania.

The AeRO Market

This market is specific for start-ups and SMEs. The AeRo market was launched on 23rd of February 2015 and its role is to finance the development projects of companies and contribute to increase their visibility. One of the most important advantage that this market offers to the investors is to provide them with stocks in this companies listed on this market can have a fast growth and their return can be really spectacular.

Bucharest Stock Exchange generates profits mainly from trading the listed instruments, from fees perceived from issuers , from administration fees and from selling stock market data to various users.