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Bulgarian C-Bank FX Reserves Rise 0.84% W/W in Week Ended Sept 12 - Table

Sep 15, 2008, 4:56:56 PMArticle by Iva Doneva
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September 15 (SeeNews) - The foreign exchange assets of the Bulgarian central bank's (BNB) Issue Department totalled 28.658 billion levs ($20.7 billion/14.6 billion euro) on September 12, up 0.84% from a week earlier, BNB said on Monday.

Bulgarian C-Bank FX Reserves Rise 0.84% W/W in Week Ended Sept 12 - Table

Following are details from the Issue Department’s balance sheet (in millions of levs):

Sept 12 Sept 5 Dec 31'07
TOTAL ASSETS 28,658.327 28,419.788 23,346.050
FX cash and nostro accounts 3,273.727 3,150.783 3,509.428
Monetary gold and other monetary gold instruments 1,344.759 1,422.503 1,410.480
Investments in securities 24,039.841 23,545.911 18,426.142
TOTAL LIABILITIES 28,658.327 28,119.197 23,346.050
Currency in circulation 8,660.518 8,521.749 8,410.867
Liabilities to banks 6,430.904 6,241.428 5,783.339
Liabilities to government and to government budget institutions 10,816.281 10,575.752 6,446.755
Liabilities to other depositors 239.141 238.073 340.108
Banking department deposit 2,511.483 2,542.195 2,364.981


Since July 1997 Bulgaria has been operating an IMF-prescribed currency board system, a tight monetary arrangement that ties the level of cash in circulation to the amount of central bank reserves. The fixed exchange rate of the Bulgarian lev under this system is 1.95583 per euro.

(1 euro = 1.95583 Bulgarian levs)

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