Floatation on its own platform is the first step that the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BSE) is taking toward its opening to a strategic partnership with a strong operator of CEE, setting the groundwork for its turning into the second capital market in the region, after Poland, in the next fifteen years. Apart from its historical value, the 8th of June, the first day BSE stock was traded, marks a rebooting of the Bucharest Stock Exchange's long-term strategy and the way it stands against the local capital market and markets in the region. "I believe the domestic Stock Exchange has the potential of becoming the second Poland in the next fifteen years. Trading volumes and the number of issuers on the Warsaw Stock Exchange can be matched by the Romanian Stock Exchange if the example we've set today is followed by other private companies and if the state uses the stock exchange as a deficit funding source," said Stere Farmache, chairman of BSE at the opening of the first BSE stock trading session. To match the current capitalisation of the Polish stock exchange, of 170bn euros, almost ten times higher, the Romanian stock exchange needs political support and the Government, which should list the companies in which it holds stakes. However, no politician or government official has attended the first trading session.

Floatation on its own platform is the first step that the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BSE) is taking toward its opening to a strategic partnership with a strong operator of CEE, setting the groundwork for its turning into the second capital market in the region, after Poland, in the next fifteen years. Apart from its historical value, the 8th of June, the first day BSE stock was traded, marks a rebooting of the Bucharest Stock Exchange's long-term strategy and the way it stands against the local capital market and markets in the region. "I believe the domes