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BRD – Groupe Societe Generale SA And Raiffeisen Capital & Investment SA Meet Requirements For Trading On The BVB Derivatives Market

Date 06/01/2010

Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) and Bucharest Clearing House (CCB) inform that starting yesterday, January 5, 2010, BRD – Groupe Societe Generale SA and Raiffeisen Capital & Investment SA meet all the requirements for trading on the BVB Derivatives Market.

Bucharest Clearing House granted those entities, at the end of December 2009, the status of individual clearing member to the CCB Clearing and Settlement System.

The start of trading on the Derivatives Market of the participants registered by the upper tier of the intermediaries trading activities acknowledges the increased interest of the market participants and investors in the derivatives available for trading on BVB.

Currently, the BVB Derivatives Market registers 27 participants, including the only credit institution acting as market-maker on a futures contract, respectively RBS Bank (Romania) SA on EUR/RON Futures contract.

The complete list of participants trading on the BVB Derivatives market is available on http://www.bvb.ro/Intermediaries/SSIFuri.aspx. More details regarding the derivatives trading at BVB can be found on the Derivatived Webpage http://www.bvb.ro/Derivatives or by contacting the exchange at bvb@bvb.ro.