First Investment Bank
| First Investment Bank AD | |
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| Country |
 Bulgaria
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| Seat | Sofia |
| legal form | Akzionerno druzhestvo (Bulgarian joint stock company) |
| BIC | FINVBGSFXXX |
| founding | October 8, 1993 |
| Website | www.fibank.bg |
| management | |
| Board | Dimitar Kostov Vassil Christov Svetoslav Moldovansky Maya Oyfalosh |
| Supervisory board | Evgeni Lukanov Maya Georgieva Georgi Mutafchiev Radka Mineva Jordan Skortchev |
The First Investment Bank , or Fibank for short ( Bulgarian : Първа инвестиционна банка, Parva investitsionna banka), is a Bulgarian universal bank . In terms of total assets, it is the third largest credit institution in the country (as of 2013). It was founded on October 8, 1993 and is based in the capital Sofia . Your share is listed on the Bulgarian Stock Exchange and included in the SOFIX index.
Fibank is the parent company of a financial group. This is in Bulgaria with 21 subsidiaries and 68 branches nationwide on the market. In 2015, Fibank's total assets were around 4.5 billion euros, deposits at 4.0 billion euros (3rd place), and loans extended to 2.6 billion euros (6th place). In total, Fibank has 380,000 individual customers and 21,000 business customers.
Fibank is also represented by subsidiaries in other Balkan countries.
- Albania : The First Investment Bank Albania is one of the largest companies in Albania . It has been present in the country since 1999, with full approval since 2007, and currently has ten offices, the headquarters are in Tirana . It is essentially a commercial bank for Bulgarian companies operating on the Albanian market.
- Cyprus
- North Macedonia (there as UNIbanka)
The credit card company CaSys International, based in Skopje , Republic of Macedonia, is also controlled by Fibank. With more than 1 million cards issued, it is the market leader in the business area.
At the end of June 2014 rumors led to a bank run in which customers are said to have withdrawn around 800 million leva (more than 400 million euros) from their accounts at Fibank within a few hours . Something similar happened previously at other Bulgarian banks, so that the country's central bank assumed controlled attempts at destabilization in the run-up to the early parliamentary elections in October 2014.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry in the BIC directory at SWIFT
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Bank Profile: First Investment Bank
- ^ Rush to Fibank: Customers vacate their accounts at a major Bulgarian bank. In: Spiegel Online Wirtschaft. June 27, 2014, accessed October 30, 2015 .
