November 30 (SeeNews) - Bulgaria's blue-chip Corporate Commercial Bank (Corpbank) said on Monday it posted a net profit of 47.6 million levs ($36.5 million/24.3 million euro) for the first ten months of 2009.
The bank had interest income of 121.3 million levs through October, it said in a statement. It gave no comparative figures.
The lender has reported 42.9 million levs in nine-month net profit, 39.7% up on the year and 2.5% above plan.
Corpbank (www.corpbank.bg), 30%-owned by an Omani-controlled company, was the ninth largest bank by assets in Bulgaria at the end of September. Twenty-four locally-registered banks and the branches of five foreign lenders operate in the country.
Shares of Corpbank added 2.56% to 60 levs as just 30 stocks were traded on Monday. The statement was released after the end of bourse trade.
(1 euro=1.95583 Bulgarian levs)