Albanian Securities Exchange (ALSE) joint to the international conference taking place on May 27, 2021 in Bucharest Romania, organized by The BURSA Press Group, in partnership with the Romanian Brokers Association, with the topic “CEE Stock Exchanges Cooperation Possibilities”
In the center of the event which was broadcasted live on the website www.bursa.ro, social media as well as by other international partners, was the focus on future trends and opportunities to develop regional capital markets in Central East Europe (CEE) and South East Europe (SEE). During this virtual conference, precious thoughts were shared between very top level managers of the domestic stock exchanges in the region such as Albanian Securities Exchange, Belgrade Stock Exchange, Bucharest Stock Exchange, Budapest Stock Exchange, Bulgarian Stock Exchange, Ljubljana Stock Exchange, Moldova Stock Exchange, Vienna Stock Exchange, Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE) and Zagreb Stock Exchange. Additionally, interesting feedback came across by various representatives of big issuers listed in domestic stock exchanges of the region.
Invited as a principal speaker of the event, Mr. Artan Gjergji, CEO of Albanian Securities Exchange hold a speech introducing participants with the characteristics of the Albanian capital markets and the challenges ahead to keep the pace with other stock exchanges in the region. On the other side, Mr. Gjergji shared his views on the potential development of the regional capital markets, suggesting the idea of big and medium stock exchanges in CEE & SEE taking the lead to merge and/or acquire shareholding parts on the small stock exchanges (specifically in SEE and Western Balkan countries), in order to push a more organized integration process. This way of proceeding – mentioned Mr. Gjergji, will not just transfer to small exchanges know-how, capital and liquidity, but would help the entire regional capital market to become an important financial hub in front of the big international portfolio investment players.
At the end of the conference, all the representatives of the stock exchanges in the region agreed on the necessity to increase the visibility of the CEE & SEE capital markets. For this reason, the proposal of the Bucharest Stock Exchange and the Romanian Brokers Association on setting up a joint-Working Group to elaborate all the possibilities of future collaboration got the unanimous support. Among potential collaboration means agreed dominated the common financial products, indexes, dual listings, technology sharing as well as potential mergers and acquisitions.
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