Budapest Stock Exchange

Wizz Air Holdings Plc.’s shares are now available on BSE’s “BETa Market”, an alternative platform of the Budapest Stock Exchange. The BETa platform offers the opportunity to trade securities of large European companies. As a result, the shares of the international airline, which has Hungarian origins, can be accessed without currency conversion through investment providers. Settlement is in HUF, and OTP Bank will act as market maker.

The outreach event series of the Hungarian Multi-Program has concluded its first season held between January and March 2020, reaching over 200 interested entrepreneurs. During the seven occasions held in different Hungarian cities, leaders of the Ministry for Innovation and Technology, along with the Head of Issuers Acquisitions of the Budapest Stock Exchange, presented the available business development opportunities such as the ELITE program.

Exchanges of the Three Seas region signed a letter of intent concerning a new index CEEplus. The launch of the index was officially announced in the presence of Minister of Investment and Economic Development Jerzy Kwieciński at the 29th Economic Forum in Krynica Zdrój. The index portfolio will include the largest and most liquid stocks listed on the exchanges of the Visegrad Group countries, Croatia, Romania and Slovenia; the index will be calculated by GPW. The index will be the underlying of a passive fund managed by TFI PZU.

Less than five months after having its new shares listed on the stock exchange, the AutoWallis shares are already traded in the Premium category of the Budapest Stock Exchange. Since spring, the automotive stock exchange company has been listed in the BUX and BUMIX, and certain FTSE indices as well. With the category change, the AutoWallis strategy announced in May follows its planned course, which could result in a robust growth in the next 10 years via organic growth and acquisitions, with the aim of becoming a major mobility service provider of the Central and Eastern European region.

4iG Nyrt., the Hungarian information technology company, has switched from the Equities Standard market to the Equities Prime market of the Budapest Stock Exchange today.

MKB Bank has begun trading with its ordinary shares worth EUR 310m on the Equities Standard Market of the Budapest Stock Exchange.

Another seven Hungarian companies joined the ELITE Programme, the international business development training organised by the London Stock Exchange Group and the Budapest Stock Exchange to support medium-sized enterprises in getting to the next level. Together with the newly joining companies, the number of Hungarian companies participating in the training series of the Programme for more than 1,100 participants globally is 24, which is outstanding for the region.

Today saw the launch of trading in the securities of International Investment Bank on the Budapest Stock Exchange. Through a bond auction, the financial institution sold nearly HUF 25 billion HUF-denominated bonds to institutional investors.

AutoWallis Plc., the asset management company focused on automotive investments, has begun trading with its newly issued shares worth EUR 49.5 million on the Budapest Stock Exchange.