A total of ten investment intermediaries booked turnover of over 100 mln leva (51.12 mln euros) each in the first five months of the year, data of the Bulgarian Stock Exchange (BSE) and Profit.bg show.

Investbank and Eurobank EFG topped the ranking with 345.8 mln leva (176.8 mln euros) and 296.19 mln leva (151.43 mln euros) turnover, respectively.

UniCredit Bulbank occupied the number three sport with 262 mln leva (133.95 mln euros) turnover from deals in securities sealed in the fist five months of 2008.

First Financial Brokerage House, Karoll, Real Finance, BenchMark Finance and Elana Trading trailed behind the three top ranked banks.

Raiffeisenbank Bulgaria and Capman, which transferred securities for 109 mln leva and 105 mln lva in the period January to May, rounded out the top 10.

Karoll topped the ranking in terms of number of transactions with 71,407 deals. BenchMark Finance and Elana Trading followed with 48,755 and 37,496 transactions, respectively.

Ug Market, Populiarna Kasa 95, First Financial Brokerage House, Capman, Eurobank EFG, Sofia International Securities (SIS), Zagora Finacorp and Deltastock recorded over 10,000 transactions each.

Tokuda Bank (17), Metric 20) and Sofia Invest Brokerage registered the least number of deals in the period.

A total of 39 investment intermediaries booked over 10 mln leva turnover each, while only nine transferred securities worth less that 1 mln leva.

RankCompanyDealsTurnoverShares1Investbank7713345812069627711722Eurobank EFG14129296183163423007523UniCredit Bulbank6870262001081490735074FFBH15267185277766441205815Karoll71407184722201303959546Real Finance4077182956787239097337BenchMark Finance48755171677007712742678Elana Trading37496121893605329624009Raiffeisenbank84721094117461462637210Capman144871054263051248911611ING Bank81382614025894010312Euro -Finance8506744606851193687613CCB2644657839061232025214Fina -S51455272357226180215KTB6124665026399676516Piraeus Bank521644197534722098817EIBank19039640306672055418Bulbrokers5838395149591293757819SIS 1238239040817676793120TBI Invest1814362340663831131