$500m in nine months' trading

Transactions by Romanian brokers on the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BSE) and RASDAQ totalled more than half a billion dollars in the first nine months of the year. Share transactions on the BSE totalled 14,595bn ROL ($435 million), while transactions on the RASDAQ amounted to over 3,500bn ROL ($105 million) in the first nine months. Top in terms of value of shares traded was SSIF Broker, a Cluj-based securities company, which will be the first broker to float on the BSE. It accounted for 2,337.8bn ROL, or 8% of total share transactions on the BSE. It came 8th among the top RASDAQ brokers, with 231bn ROL in transactions. September’s ranking saw SSIF Broker back on top, with 285.4bn ROL of transactions, having been outrun by Raiffeisen Capital & Investment in August. ZF