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As of today, the Romanian broker BT Securities will start trading as a direct trading member of the cash market of the Vienna Stock Exchange. It is already the second trading member from the new EU member states to join the VSE. The connection of BT Securities to the VSE confirms the new trend of growing interest of Central and Eastern European banks in the Austrian market.
Thus, with BT Securities the Vienna Stock Exchange has acquired the second international trading member this year. All in all, 44 of 83 trading members of the Vienna Stock Exchange are foreign trading banks; by the end of April 2008, they accounted for more than two-thirds of stock trading volume with a share of 67.7%. The largest foreign investors in the ATX prime market are the US with 27.8%, followed by Great Britain with 22.9%, Germany with 10.1% and France with 6.2%. Poland is the first new EU member state that ranks among the top 10 investors in the ATX prime market (9th with 2.1%).
BT Securities, a member of the Banca Transilvania Financial Group, was created in 1999 by the merger of three broker firms. It is one of the top five brokers in Romania. With a network of more than 20 agencies in the entire country and over 100 employees, BT Securities offers a wide range of financial services.
