Ten Investment Intermediaries Book Over 100 Mln Leva Turnover Each in Jan-May
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.