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The presidential elections in Romania, which will take place on Sunday, November 24, 2024, represent a crucial moment in defining the political direction of the country for the next five years, given the fact that, out of the 14 candidates for...

The European Parliament, with 401 votes in favor, 284 votes against, 15 abstentions and 7 null votes, decided yesterday to grant Ursula von der Leyen a new mandate as President of the European Commission, despite the fact that the EU Court of...

The placing under judicial control with the payment of a 500,000 lei bond of reserve general Florian Coldea, former head of the Romanian Intelligence Service, was the breaking news at the end of last week, after marathon hearings that lasted 13...

The Mangalia Naval Shipyard (DSMa) is in a difficult economic situation after last year, in August, the partners from Damen Holding BV notified the Romanian state that they were withdrawing from the agreement concluded regarding their involvement...

Reporter: What are your objectives in the current term of office as vice president of the Financial Supervisory Authority, responsible for the capital market?

The prospects for the capital market in our country are positive despite the fact that 2024 is an election year, in which political decision-makers are tempted to take stimulating measures, to the detriment of restrictive ones, stated the...

Preşedintele USR, Cătălin Drulă, a anunţat că Uniunea Salvaţi România sesizează DNA şi autorităţile canadiene "pentru manipularea bursei" de către premierul Marcel Ciolacu prin declaraţiile sale şi cere demisia acestuia. În replică,...

The president of USR, Cătălin Drula, announced that the Save Romania Union is notifying DNA and the Canadian authorities "for the manipulation of the stock market" by Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu through his statements and demands his...

The Roşia Montană scandal originates in 1997, when the authorities granted the concession license for the exploitation of gold and silver ores in the area to the state company Minvest Deva, for a period of 20 years. After four months, the license...

Radu Soviani: What is your relationship with the Drăgoi family?

The US Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) decision to approve spot Bitcoin ETFs is a game-changer in the industry, some analysts and crypto-asset followers believe.

Radu Soviani: You say that the grand privatization program should actually be called the grand nationalization program. Why is that?

It could be a significant day: today, when the appointment of the Financial Supervisory Authority (ASF) leadership for the next term is scheduled in Parliament, the parliamentary majority could express satisfaction with the bribes received from...

With help from OECD, Romania has prepared a lengthy 80-page National Capital Market Development Strategy 2022-2026, which was recently published.

Nicu Marcu's courage is strikingly visible in the chart called "NAV Dynamic of the SIFs", presented above, where anyone can see how SIF Banat Crişana goes off the reservation compared to the other SIFs and everybody knows that Nicu...

• Ciprian Copariu, former head of the Monitoring Department of the ASF is being accused of abuse in office in the criminal complaint • Ciprian Copariu: "During my time as head of the Department, I have rigorously applied the legislation in...  

• The decision of the shareholders of SIF Banat-Crişana to exonerate Bogdan Drăgoi, analyzed by the court of first instance 

A Reddit group with millions of members, WallStreetBets, has been the main topic in the international press for the past two weeks. These investors, who call themselves "degenerates", perhaps in order to distinguish themselves from the...

The response of the ASF to BURSA blows apart the official reports of SIF Banat Crişana, because the Financial Oversight Authority (ASF) contradicts the claims made by Bogdan Drăgoi, the CEO of SIF Banat Crişana (SIF 1), in the official documents...

BURSA has submitted a preliminary complaint against the Financial Oversight Authority (ASF), because it is dragging its feet in answering the request for information included in an Open Letter, which was published in the September 2 issue (vezi...

On October 9th, it has been two years since, following the completion of the deal whereby SIF Oltenia (SIF5) sold (to Erste Group Bank) its 6.29% stake (1,023,534,303 shares) in the Romanian Commercial Bank (BCR) for 140 million Euros.

Talks between the United States and China, though they only took place over the phone, have brought the world's two superpowers into the spotlight. Despite growing tensions over the past two years between the world's two largest...

• (A response in ten points and a Note addressed to the Reply by SIF Banat Crişana)  

The difficulty in dealing with these cases of manipulation and fraud lies in the fact that many words are needed.

As the cap on holdings by individual investors was being raised, projects and strategies to go around it have been were conceived, as Bîlteanu and Lakis did by having SIF Banat Crişana take over the manager of SIF Muntenia.

The inability of the Financial Oversight Authority (ASF) to fulfill its role is now visible, without the need for specialized subtleties, because the chaos induced in the SIF market has reached the stage where it requires the intervention from...

Despite the conviction of El Lakis Najib and Dragoş Bîlteanu for the manipulation of the capital market and for using in ill-faith the goods and credit of the company, the expansion of SIF Banat Crişana that they have begun continues to be...

When you've painted yourself into the corner, by ignoring the mistakes of monetary policy, yours and those of others, the only "effective" measure remains prayer.

Reporter: What is the most developed financial market in the world and what are its distinctive features?

• Interview with economist Lucian Isar 

The capital market was marked, last week, by a number of controversial statements tied to the listing of Digi Communications, starting from the statements made recently by Darius Vâlcov, state advisor on the team of the prime-minister, who wrote...

The DIICOT prosecutors have begun prosecution in rem of the actions, in the "Romcab" (MCAB) case, according to a response sent by the prosecutors to Valentin Stănescu, a shareholder in the company. Last summer, he brought a criminal...

The leu yesterday weakened again, reaching the level of 4.5985 lei against the Euro, after on Monday it was quoted at 4.5958 lei.

The Financial Oversight Authority (ASF) needs to urgently refer the matter to itself concerning a potential market manipulation, in the case of the use of bank guarantee letters in the Digi Communications IPO, which inflated demand, leading to an...

Deutsche Bank is stuck in a vicious circle, and "the bank's problems can prove insurmountable", according to an article on Bloomberg, which quotes the conclusions of a recent analysis by the Berenberg bank.

Just as the unofficial "rating" of Deutsche Bank went from "atrocious" to "depressing", according to Dominic Elliott, writing for Reuters, following the publication of the earnings for Q1 2016, the German financial giant...

The International Monetary Fund has tried to attenuate the pessimism reflected in its World Economic Outlook through the Global Financial Stability Report, titled "Potent policies for a successful normalization".

Reporter: In the report about Romania, recently published, the International Monetary Fund states: "The legal risks remain a major problem for the banking system. A wave of recent lawsuits filed based on the Civil Code of Law passed in...

The High Court of Cassation and Justice yesterday rejected the contestations filed by businessmen Dragoş Bîlteanu and Najib el Lakis against the ruling of the Bucharest Court of Appeal to extend the measure of preventive custody, in the case in...