Category: ALSE News

Today, on April 25^th, 2019, was executed the first transaction by a brokerage firm at ALSE. Triumf Grup traded 30 units of Treasury Bills with a maturity date of 6 months, at the value of 298,000 ALL. This transaction was executed during the on-exchange trading hours and there was no problem in the post-trading process (reporting to clearing agent, clearing-settlement).

This transaction marks an important mile stone in the process of developing securities market in Albania since it indicates an increase in the level of the interest by other financial institutions (not banks) to be active in the intermediation of securities transactions for citizens and other position holders.

Now the investors interested to trade debt securities that hold in their portfolios, before their maturity, can deal not only with banks but also with the brokerage firms’ licensed by the Albanian Financial Supervisory Authority and accepted as member at ALSE.

For detailed information regarding the members of Albanian Securities Exchange, please click here.

On April 22^nd, 2019, Albanian Securities Exchange was provided with Market Identifier Code (MIC). MIC is a unique code, part of a standardized and internationally accepted system which is used to identify the stock exchanges, regulated and unregulated markets. MIC code is made of four characters which are defined in the certification standards ISO 10383 of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO)

MIC code is used to process and clear transactions using straight through processing (STP) approach. Straight through processing approach helps improving the speed of processing transactions.

MIC code defined for ALSE is: XALS

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Albanian Securities Exchange ALSE announces to the public and interested parties that due to the capital transforming process and changes in the shareholder structure, ICB Bank and Tirana Bank have decided to not renovate their membership at ALSE until the moment that the new shareholders will define their development objectives of these institutions at the domestic market.

ICB Bank gained its membership at ALSE on 15.01.2018 to exercise its activity as brokerage firm (dealer), meanwhile Tirana Bank gained its membership at ALSE on 23.03.2018 to exercise its activity as brokerage firm (broker-dealer).

Earlier, on December 2018 both these institutions had requested an extension period for membership at ALSE with no financial and legal commitments coming from this process, until their change of the shareholders’ structure. With the decision no. 28, date 26.12.2018 Supervisory Board of ALSE had extended the membership of both institutions until March 31^st, 2019, to give the opportunity to these institutions to integrate the new shareholders development policies.

Starting from March 1^st, 2019, ICB Bank and Tirana Bank are not members of Albanian Securities Exchange.