At the end of 2007 the number of investors using the electronic system COBOS reached 5,142, shows data presented by BSE. This is 2,813 people more than last year.

Karoll is the investment intermediary with the most new clients in 2007 - 604. Next are BenchMark Finance and Elana Trading with 530 and 483 new investors, respectively.

Ug Market, Eurobank EFG and Capman all attracted more than 100 new clients each. The top 10 chart also includes SIS, Popular Kasa 95, Real Finance and Varchev Finance.

On December 31 the system was used by a total of 54 investment intermediaries and banks, compared with 47 a year ago.

Karoll is still the investment intermediary with the greatest number of COBOS certificates issued, BenchMark stole the second position from Elana Trading. Ug Market is number four, followed by Eurobank EFG Capital and Capman.

NoBourse Member21 Dec 200731 Dec 2006Change1Karoll1,276686042BenchMark Finance8593295303Elana Trading8543714834Ug Market249881615Eurobank EFG175661096Capman154471077SIS15259938Popular Kasa 9513448869Real Finance91217010Varchev finance88315711Zagora Finarcoop111565512FFBH66244213MKB UnionBank59194014STS Finance48123615Piraeus Bank4183316Somoni FB67353217BG Proinvest63333018Bora Invest 102742819Capital Markets3682820Status Invest633726