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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

The Top 100 Bulgarian companies: Extreme growth
Capital Weekly’s 2022 ranking of the 100 largest companies in Bulgaria shows that giants’ earnings soared by 38% in 2021, with firms from the energy, fuels, grains and metals sectors at the helm

Resolute Asset Management - global asset manager and advisor
The Director and Country Head for Bulgaria of the leading global asset management company talks to KInsights

Recycling Humanita’s business
The indebted company for processing of second-hand clothes has two options: rehabilitation or bankruptcy

The Week: Troubles in the Black Sea, not a nice time to be a Bulgarian neighbor, Capital sells covers on an NFT auction
The Three seas in Sofia; No date for North Macedonia, welcome to the Rhodope mountain train

Bulgarian banks weather stormy year in 2020
The financial sector got a reprieve for the coronavirus crisis but risks are yet to come in 2021

Russia is back, Parliament is stuck, universities and politics don't mix well, and Sofia Airport is now private
K Insights 23/04: Some problems in the budget and a hope for sunshine in North Macedonia


Mortgage lending did not bend to the pandemic
The overall property loan volume in Bulgaria grew in 2020 as demand remained high even during the pandemic

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

Filling the gap
First Investment Bank (Fibank) prepares to smooth out wrinkles on its balance sheet found by ECB

Fibank trying to pass ECB’s bar
Accrued loan impairment added up to over 65 million levs following the ECB's comprehensive assessment

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

Banks pass new milestone
The banking sector is in good shape, breaking asset and profit records with the help of one-off events, mid-year data show


Bulgaria runs into the eurozone's wall
The European Central Bank seems unenthusiastic about Sofia's intention to apply for admission into the eurozone's training grounds

Bulgaria’s best banks
UniCredit Bulbank leads Capital’s TOP 10 Banks ranking for a second year in a row

More and more united
Belgium’s KBC acquires UBB, the fourth-largest lender in Bulgaria, for 610 million euro in the biggest bank merger in the southeast European country