Warsaw Stock Exchange Summary Of The Year 2009

The year 2009 was highly successful for the Warsaw Stock Exchange and strengthened the position of the Polish bourse as the largest and most dynamically growing market in this part of Europe.

The success was driven, inter alia, by spectacular developments on the primary market such as the IPO of the Polish Energy Group (PGE) preceded by the largest in Europe public offering and new issue of shares in PKO BP Bank. The total number of debuts in 2009 on the WSE Main List and NewConnect was 39, whereas the stock exchange indices rose by several dozen percent, which enabled the investors to make up for some of the losses suffered in 2008.

A major milestone in the WSE development was the launch of Catalyst market, a new organized market of debt securities for local governments and corporate issuers.

2009 Major Highlights

5 Jan. – allowing intra-session reporting by issuers
23 Feb. – Warsaw Stock Exchange signed Memorandum of Understanding with Belarusian Currency and Stock Exchange
10 Mar. – start of publishing data on concentration of futures open interest
31 Jul. – NewConnect Convention – the largest meeting of NewConnect market community
30 Sep. – launch of the Catalyst bond market
3 Nov. – listing of shares under new issue of PKO BP bank
6 Nov. – an IPO of Polish Energy Group (PGE), the second IPO in terms of value in the WSE history
19 Nov. – introduction of Respect Ranking and publication of the Respect index, which are a benchmark for CSR activity of WSE-listed companies
26 Nov. – BofA Merrill Lynch begins operating as a remote WSE member
6 Dec. – open day on WSE and National Depository for Securities (KDPW) under the title ”All that stock exchange” with a record high number of visitors totalling 6000)
10 Dec. – WSE came in the first place in the CEE and SEE regions in terms of capitalisation of domestic companies and occupied a runner-up position (following the Athens stock exchange) in terms of turnover value on the stock market (FESE data)

Please find attached 2009 statistical highlights regarding the WSE Main List, NewConnect and Catalyst markets.