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Petar Andronov, KBC Group: The main prognosis is for a "soft recession"
Belgian KBC Group expects 0.7% GDP growth in Bulgaria for 2023

Bulgaria’s Top 10 Banks in 2021
Capital Weekly ranks financial institutions in terms of stability, profitability and dynamics

The week: The gas is off, the fight is on, Petkov goes to Kiyv, and do you need that salary of yours
K Insights 29/04: legalizing the industrial hemp, are 100 diplomats too many?

Bulgarian banks’ profit rises to 1.4 billion levs in 2021
Lower impairment costs, decreased contributions to guarantee funds and the credit moratorium boosted annual profit by 600 million levs

KBC Group Buys Raiffeisenbank (Bulgaria) in record 1 billion euro deal
KBC Group is also owner of United Bulgarian Bank (UBB) and the merger of the two banks will create a third local giant of the caliber of UniCredit Bulbank and DSK

The golden passports of Bulgaria; the new lockdown and the elections; how to get a year of free rent
K Insights 19/03: the dirty campaign begins and what is cyberethics

The deals of 2020: Few and far between
The pandemic practically froze the M&A market. Buyers are still mostly local faces

KBC expanding into Bulgaria’s pension insurance market
The Belgian group is acquiring Dutch-based NN’s Bulgarian businesses for 77.7 mln euro

A big plan that bets on hydrogen and solar, 100 million euro losses per week and how to get Bulgarians to vaccinate
K Insights 12/02: April will be very busy, and coming up: new debt and a 5000 hp supercar

The pressure below surface
Bulgarian banks remained profitable in the first three quarters of 2020 despite the coronavirus impact but with the expiry of the credit moratorium drawing nearer pressure will likely increase on profit margins in the coming months

Bulgaria finally enters the euro’s waiting room
The country will continue implementing reforms in the judiciary and in the fight against organized crime and corruption, according to the ECB

ECB’s test: who failed and who passed
Four Bulgarian banks passed the European Central Bank’s comprehensive assessment, whereas Fibank and Investbank face capital shortfalls

The best banks of 2018
UniCredit Bulbank returns to take the lead in K10, the annual ranking of the leading banks in Bulgaria by Capital newspaper, largely thanks to a dividend sweetener in its profit

Bulgaria’s euro bid moves a step closer
The positive outcome of ECB’s asset quality review of Bulgarian banks will be the real entry ticket

New stress tests for Bulgarian banks
The European Central Bank will be conducting an assessment of six lenders starting in November

New billion-lev deal in Bulgaria’s banking sector
DSK Bank is set to buy Societe Generale Expressbank for close to 1.0 billion levs, or 1.3 times its capital, vying for the top spot in the sector in terms of assets.

Demand for business properties drops
The lack of high quality projects and rising prices cited as the principal reasons