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Mortgage lending boosts Bulgarian banks’ 2024 profit to 3.7 bln levs
DSK, Unicredit Bulbank lead the ranking with nearly a billion levs in profit each

Bulgarian Banks Post-Peak: Shrinking Margins and Slowing Profit Growth
Shrinking margins have effectively reduced the sector's annual profit growth rate to nearly zero

The week: Why Nations Fail in football and elections
One night in Belfast, What is wrong with the Air Force, Varna ex-mayor is sinking

The week: Dispatches from the frontlines of the heat war
Bulgaria bakes, coal TPPs fire up and no Anti-Peevski front forms

First Investment Bank up for sale - sources
UniCredit Bulbank and Postbank vie to acquire Bulgaria’s fifth largest lender

K10: The Best Banks of 2023
UniCredit Bulbank again leads the Capital Weekly’s ranking of banks in Bulgaria, UBB is now the largest bank, DSK reports record profit

DSK, UniCredit Bulbank Plan to Distribute Over 1 Billion Levs in Dividends
Most of the 3.4 billion levs (1.7 billion euro) profit reported by the banking sector for 2023 will be reinvested

Euphoria Fading on Bulgaria's Housing Market
After peaking in 2021-2022, transactions and, construction permits are now declining, and price growth is slowing down

The week: No country for new dogs
What Plovdiv teaches us about Bulgaria, 50 Shades of grey money, and some horror (thankfully, on the screen)

K10: The best banks of 2022
Unicredit Bulbank ranks first in Capital’s ranking, displacing the other traditional champion DSK from the top

Bulgarian banks’ profit hits record 2 billion levs in 2022
The banking sector posts the strongest growth in all segments since the global crisis

The week: Bulgaria’s favorite decade, the euro-effort is shot in the leg, and banks are doing great
The past still has power over us

The top ten owners of office buildings in Sofia
They own 600 thousand square meters of offices in Sofia or half of the total available 1.24 million square meters of class A areas in the capital.

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

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