Romanians can buy between February 21st and March 1st new Fidelis government bonds in the 15th IPO carried out by the Ministry of Finance

• Like in the previous offerings carried out last year, this IPO includes five issues, in EUR and RON, out of which one is dedicated to blood donors.
• The bonds dedicated to donors are denominated in RON, have a maturity of 1 year and an interest rate of 7%
• The Ministry of Finance will issue, also, two other issues in RON, with maturities of 1 year and 3 years and interest rates of 6% p.a. and 6.75% p.a., and two in EUR, with maturities of 1 and 5 years, respectively, and interest of 4% p.a. and 5% p.a.
• The offer is carried out between February 21^st and March 1^st, and the estimated date of the listing of Fidelis securities on the local stock market is March 7^th.
• Through the previous 14 IPOs for Fidelis bonds, between July 2020 to December 2023, the Ministry of Finance attracted almost RON 24.5bn (almost EUR 5bn) from individual investors.

The Ministry of Finance (MF) carries out on Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) the 15^th public sales offer for Fidelis government bonds, between February 21^st and March 1^st. Through the previous 14 offers, the Ministry of Finance attracted from the retail investors almost RON 24.5bn (almost EUR 5bn).

Resident and non-resident individuals over the age of 18 years can subscribe Fidelis government bonds denominated in RON and EUR within the public sale offer carried out on Bucharest Stock Exchange, through the intermediary consortium or intermediaries who have signed an undertaking to comply with the conditions of the offer and the provisions of the prospectus and have sent the undertaking to the Lead Manager. The consortium is composed by Alpha Bank Romania, BT Capital Partners & Banca Transilvania, Banca Comerciala Romana and BRD - Groupe Societe Generale.

The details are available in the table below:

On the donors' tranche, orders can only be placed by investors who have donated blood starting with July 1^st, 2024 and/or who donate during the Fidelis government bond offering.

The allocation of the government bonds subscribed within the offer will be executed on the allocation date (March 1^st, 2024), and the final number of government bonds offered will be established by the issuer in consultation with the intermediary syndicate. The orders related to the subscriptions allocated to investors based on the subscriptions validated by the members of the syndicate / Eligible Participants will be registered in BVB’s trading system dedicated to public offers (government bonds).

The first trading day is estimated to be March 7, 2024.

The income obtained through the investment in FIDELIS government bonds, both from interest and from capital gains, is non-taxable. Also, the subscriptions can be made through Eligible Participants, which represent any intermediary authorized by Financial Supervisory Authority, which is financial investment company or credit institution registered as a participant in Bucharest Stock Exchange’s trading system that signed the commitment regarding the conditions of the offer, the provisions of the issue prospectus and sent the commitment to the Lead Manager. The intermediary syndicate of the offer includes BT Capital Partners (Lead Manager) & Banca Transilvania (distribution group), Alpha Bank Romania, BCR and BRD.

More details can be found on BVB website.