Bulgaria's Central Cooperative Bank Posts 2.0% Rise in Jan-Sept Net Profit to 5.3 Mln Euro

CCB deposit portfolio expanded 7.5% on the year to 1.515 billion levs at the end of September, while its credit portfolio was 20% higher at 1.102 billion levs, the bank said in its financial report for the first nine months.

Its assets rose 10% on the year to 1.8 billion levs at the end of September when the bank was the 12th largest lender by assets in the country, it said.

Bulgaria has 24 domestically-registered banks and five branches of foreign lenders at the end of September.

(1 euro = 1.95583 Bulgarian levs)