Bulgaria is operating under an IMF-prescribed restrictive monetary mechanism called a currency board system that pegs the lev at a fixed exchange rate to the euro and bans the BNB from lending to the government. The Banking Department can be a lender of last resort to local commercial banks but only to ward off systemic risk.
Following are figures from the Banking Department's balance sheet (in millions of levs):
Nov 28 | Oct 31 | |
TOTAL LIABILITIES AND EQUITY | 4,735.124 | 4,467.720 |
TOTAL LIABILITIES | 1,413.984 | 1,416.470 |
- Borrowings from IMF | 0.0 | 0.0 |
- Liabilities to international financial institutions | 1,392.683 | 1,384.055 |
- Other liabilities | 21.301 | 32.415 |
TOTAL EQUITY | 3,321.140 | 3,051.250 |
- Capital | 20.000 | 20.0 |
- Reserves | 2,681.881 | 2,461.121 |
- Retained profit | 619.259 | 570.129 |
TOTAL ASSETS | 4,735.124 | 4,467.720 |
- Non-monetary gold and other precious metals | 23.083 | 20.912 |
- Dues from government | 0.0 | 0.0 |
- Bulgaria IMF quota and holdings in other international financial institutions | 1,500.338 | 1,491.767 |
- Fixed assets | 131.171 | 125.907 |
- Other assets | 6.583 | 5.646 |
- Deposit with BNB's Issue Department | 3,073.949 | 2,823.488 |
(1 euro = 1.95583 Bulgarian levs)