Bulgarian National Bank

A new banknote with a nominal value of BGN 100 / about 51 € / from 2018 is in circulation today, reported the Bulgarian National Radio. 

It will be valid along with the old one, which was issued back in 2003. The Bulgarian National Bank reported that the release of the new series is necessary for raising security.

The Bulgarian National Bank (BNB) launches a new series of banknotes. The common design and basic features of the new series banknote are preserved without any substantial changes to the banknotes that are in circulation. Changes in the new series' banknotes stem mainly from the introduction of new security features, the bank said. The banknote will be in circulation from 28 December 2018.

From 10th of December 2018, the Bulgarian National Bank releases in circulation a gold commemorative coin 'St.Phony Martyr Stefan' from the series Bulgarian iconography. It will be sold at the BNB teller desks for BGN 860, reports BNT. 

From today until December 12, anyone can buy up to two coins, after which there will be no limitations of the number of coins one can purchase.

Adopting the euro will not generate inflationary impulses above the health levels, but that does not mean that prices will remain unchanged. This is a process of real convergence, which means bringing both incomes and prices closer to the average in Europe. BNB Governor Dimitar Radev said on BNT, reports Dnevnik. 

In the last two years interest rates on deposits in the banking market in Bulgaria have steadily declined, and in 2016 for the first time they have fallen below 1%. October brought a new record in this direction as for the first time in Bulgaria a negative return on deposits was reported, according to money.bg

The talk about some "catastrophic collapse of investments" is rather ignorance of data, Prime Minister Boyko Borissov wrote on Facebook, citing revised data on foreign direct investment, released by the Bulgarian National Bank (BNB), reports Focus News Agency. 

SOFIA (Bulgaria), August 21 (SeeNews) - The assets of resident investment funds in Bulgaria increased by an annual 17.6% to 1.37 billion levs ($805.8 million/700.5 million euro) at the end of June, the Bulgarian National Bank (BNB) said on Tuesday.

The assets of resident investment funds rose by 2% compared to the end of March, the central bank said in a press release.

SOFIA (Bulgaria), August 8 (SeeNews) - The value of Bulgarian banks' outstanding loans to the non-government sector rose 5.9% on the year to 53.3 billion levs ($31.6 billion/27.3 billion euro) at the end of June, from 4.0% annual growth at the end of the previous quarter, Bulgarian National Bank (BNB) data showed on Wednesday.

From April 23, 2018, the Bulgarian National Bank puts into circulation a silver commemorative coin "The Old Elm in Sliven".

The price of the coin is 78 (seventy-eight) BGN.

Bulgarians working abroad have sent their relatives in Bulgaria over 1.15 billion euros last year. This is EUR 284 million more than in 2016 when the amount of money transfers amounted to EUR 869 million. This shows the preliminary data of the Bulgarian National Bank (BNB).