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Postbank: mortgage loans rise in value, number of applications stable
The bank’s records show an average increase in property prices of 13% y/y in Q1 2022

The week: "Year Zero" for anti-corruption, new cabinet or new elections, the quick end of the Gemcorp memorandum
Captured state fights back, gas storage slowly fills up and a skyscraper that is not

What stands behind the arcane $1 billion investment memorandum with Gemcorp and IP3 funds?
Kapital Insights sheds light on the main points of the controversial memorandum signed by the two investment funds and the government

The week: The best place to start fighting the corruption, Don’t count a coalition before it’s hatched, Crypto collapse
A fatal crash exposes depth of state capture, No gov’t + crypto layoffs and M&As

Revising the budget: everyone gets what they want
The first revision of this year’s budget has become a money grab amidst economic and political uncertainty

Bulgaria’s political crisis puts RRP funding at risk
Without Parliament failing to adopt the relevant legislation, funds under the Recovery Plan will remain blocked.

Illegal road repairs worth billions
A cross-ministerial probe found that much of the money paid for roadworks and maintenance has been illegally allocated

Bulgaria slowing down on its way to the eurozone
The country does not meet the criterion of inflation but the political differences in the ruling coalition pose a bigger problem

Bulgaria’s anti-inflation measures: chaos and populism
The government will spend 2 billion levs on populist measures without targeting the most vulnerable groups in society

Does Bulgaria really have 213,000 bitcoins?
Five years after the first information that the Bulgarian state had seized crypto worth billions of dollars, inside sources and other information from the new cabinet reveal that there were never any bitcoins at all

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

Money for RES for businesses’ own use
Commercial lenders and Bulgarian Development Bank (BDB) provide financing for solar power plants for businesses. Also, there is a funding program with 200 million levs in grants under the Recovery Plan

The real influence of Russia in Bulgaria, part 2: The real players
In the second article of a two-part series, KInsights explores how Putin’s war in Ukraine exposed that Bulgarian politics remains hostage to a powerful pro-Kremlin network holding key positions in the state