Capital market

Greetings! So, the pollsters are showing Androulakis ahead in PASOK. We’ve discussed this before, but that doesn’t mean that Doukas has thrown in the towel—on the contrary, I’d say.

The three priorities for Public Power Corporation are the regulation of markets, the unification of capital markets, and the acceleration network development, President and CEO Georgios Stassis said addressing the BloombergNEF Summit in London on Tuesday.

Greece will return to the capital markets on Wednesday with the reopening of two bonds, aiming to raise 400 million euros from investors.

The government has adopted a strategy for the development of capital markets that the Finance Ministry hopes will make Slovenia a country where organised financial markets are recognised as an investment opportunity.

Bled – The VZMD Slovenian association of small shareholders and Better Finance will organise an investment conference on Monday to discuss ways of encouraging small shareholders to invest more in the capital market. Around 100 representatives of decision-makers, regulators and shareholders are expected to attend.

The argument "we are not selling this country for peanuts" will not hold, because we can actually buy it ourselves, there are 7 million Romanians who are waiting to invest billions of Euro in these state listings and here I am referring to the private pension funds, said, on Tuesday, in a specialty video-conference, Cristian Popa, Board member of the National Bank of Romania (BNR).

The local capital market has evolved nicely both in terms of liquidity and of the value of the listed companies, president of the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) Radu Hanga told a news conference today dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the listing of Fondul Proprietatea (FP).

Turkish capital markets in 2020 drew growing interest from domestic investors, with 782,367 people investing in the markets, according to data compiled on Jan. 5 by Anadolu Agency from the Central Registry Agency (MKK).

Capital markets have numerous benefits for different participants in the economy. For a company or entity in need of funding, domestic capital markets provide an alternative funding source from bank financing. While for investors and savers, capital markets can offer more attractive investing opportunities than bank deposits—depending on risk profile, liquidity needs, and other factors.

Greece's Piraeus Bank is monitoring debt capital markets to spot a window of opportunity for a debt issue as part of its capital enhancement plan, its chief executive told Reuters on Wednesday.

"Piraeus Bank is executing a capital enhancement plan, as already communicated to the market since mid-2018," Christos Megalou said.