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Ivan Marinov
BANKING CONSUMER CREDIT –
A COMPONENT OF THE “RETAIL BANKING” BUSINESS SEGMENT
Summary:
The topic of bank financing of consumption is widely discussed in the studies of a number of researchers in the field of banking. The loans by which banking companies meet the personal needs of individuals and households have long been an integral part of people's lives and have had a significant role in the economies of most countries around the world.
This paper aims to clarify the essential characteristics and specificities of banking consumer credit in Bulgaria. To implement the goal set by the author, the texts of the legal framework on consumer lending in the country are considered, and also the positions of Bulgarian and foreign authors on the definition of the term “consumer credit” and practically applied manifesta-tions of individual types of loans for current purposes, offered by commercial banks in Bulgaria.
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Daniel Nikolaev
THE IMPACT OF COMMERCIAL BANKS ON CONVERGENCE IN THE EUROPEAN UNION
Summary:
The paper traces the impact of the international, systematically important banks on the state and phenomena observed in the European Union. It comes to the conclusion that international commercial banks further strengthen the convergence in the banking systems of the member states. In the process of disclosure of these relationships, the macroeconomic factors in the European Union have also been analyzed affecting the returns from the main activity of banking institutions aggregated across member states. By sequential use of the regression model and optimization, values representing the local specificities of the individual member-state towards the Union have been reached. Links have been found that suggest a time lag in the effects observed since the crisis in 2008. Both the international banks and the stock market status in the individual member states indicate that international systematically important banks function as a conductor of extreme cross-border phenomena.
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Petko Angelov
Trends in the Development of Financial Parameters of Banks
in Bulgaria (2008 – 2015)
Summary:
Lending and deposit-taking are key operations to credit institutions. They are of great importance to achieving efficiency in banking. Banking, in turn, should be quantified; a number of factors well-known in banking theory and practice provide the possibility for this. In this respect, the subject of analysis in the study is the profit, profitability, and return of the banks of first and second group in Bulgaria which measure bank efficiency. The purpose of the study is to analyze the bank efficiency for the period 2008 – 2015 on the basis of a ratio analysis and determination of specific values for both groups of banks. As a result of the study, the trends regarding the efficiency of banking in Bulgaria are outlined and the main causes are identified.
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Lubomir Lubenov, Anelia Lyubenova, Ivailo Hristakov
FINANCIAL ISSUES AND FUNDING IN THE BULGARIAN BEEKEEPING SECTOR
Summary:
The aim of the study is to establish the amount of funding in Bulgarian beekeeping and their trends. The goal is achived through an analysis of the tendencies and the main sources of financial means. The study analyses the financial support from European and national funds (the National Beekeeping Program, the de minimis scheme, the Rural Development Program) for over BGN 18 million and from commercial banks and own sources for over BGN 3 million. Together they form financial markets for over BGN 21 million a year in Bulgarian beekeeping. The European and state financial resources intended for Bulgarian beekeeping from the country's membership in the EU are increasing in absolute terms, but are decreasing relative to the total funds. Bulgarian beekeeping has gained access to additional funding, which is not proportionate in comparison with other sectors. Additional financial support is needed per hive for the ecosystem pollination service in order to ensure biodiversity and food security in the EU. The financing of the Bulgarian beekeeping will continue to grow steadily.
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Reneta Dimitrova
THE FINANCIAL LITERACY OF CLIENTS – AN IMPORTANT FACTOR FOR BANKS’ SUCCESSFUL DIGITALIZATION
Summary:
The digitalization of banking operations and the opportunities it provides the clients with has been an important aspect of banking for decades. Banks are among the financial institutions that work actively so that they do not lag behind the global e-business which is moving forward. Successful banking digitalization depends on numerous factors whereas one of them is clients’ financial literacy which significantly predefines how the process of banks’ digital transformation would continue. The research is aimed at outlining banking digitalization’s dependency on the literacy level of clients and the policies to be implemented so that it is successful.
