At the end of the trading session, the bank’s shares reached RON0.0675/unit, up 12.5% on the day.

Ilie Carabulea and Corneliu Tanase, which jointly hold the majority stake in Banca Carpatica, plan to change the latter’s executive management team, by amending the statute and structure of its Supervisory and Managing Boards, while the bank’s managers want Banca Carpatica to merge with another lender.

The bourse’s main index BET was up 57.69 points, or 0.91%, at 6.389,20, while composite index BET-C gained 20.98 points, or 0.65%, to 3.249,05.

BET-FI, which tracks Fondul Proprietatea (FP.RO) and the five regional investment funds SIFs, rose 1.31% on the day, at 30.151,45, with SIFs gaining between 0.51% and 2.99%.

Bucharest benchmark index BET-BK finished the session at 1.229,67, up 1.17% on the day, while energy stocks tracker BET-NG advanced 0.69% to 649.87.

The wider BET-XT closed at 588.95, up 1.023% on the day.

Overall trading reached 38 million lei (EUR8.4 million), 15% lower than RON44.7 million Wednesday. Top-traded stocks included Fondul Proprietatea, OMV Petrom (SNP.RO), SIF Oltenia (SIF5.RO) and Transgaz (TGN.RO).