A total of 14 investment intermediaries generated over 100 mln leva turnover each from deals sealed on the Bulgarian Stock Exchange (BSE) in 2008, compared to 26 a year earlier, data of BSE and Profit.bg show.
Investbank and UniCredit Bulbank topped the ranking for 2008 with 884.9 mln leva and 715.19 mln leva turnover, respectively, followed by First Financial Brokerage House, which generated 375.2 mln leva turnover.
Eurobank EFG Bulgaria, Karoll and Real Finance also booked over 300 mln leva turnover each.
Other investment intermediaries with over 100 mln leva turnover include BenchMark Finance, Raiffeisenbank, Elana Trading, Euro-Finance, CCB, Capman, Sofia International Securities (SIS) and Fina-S.
Last year's top ranked Raiffeisenbank and EIBank occupy the number 8 and 25 spots, respectively.
BSE's overall trading turnover came to 2.903 bln leva in 2008. Over-the-counter deals accounted for 774.8 mln leva of the figure. BSE's overall turnover came to 9.945 bln leva a year earlier.
| Rank | Investment intermediary | 2008 | 2007 |
| 1 | Investbank | 884 914 973 | 361 393 500 |
| 2 | UniCredit Bulbank | 715 194 236 | 2045169389 |
| 3 | FFBH | 375 211 289 | 795 915 431 |
| 4 | Eurobank EFG | 335 171 499 | 548 228 404 |
| 5 | Karoll | 311 664 587 | 496 859 231 |
| 6 | Real Finance | 304 356 504 | 231 539 189 |
| 7 | BenchMark Finance | 272 018 219 | 350 882 889 |
| 8 | Raiffeisenbank | 250 506 664 | 4 679 689 056 |
| 9 | Elana Trading | 208 944 824 | 360 776 703 |
| 10 | Euro-Finance | 189 689 632 | 270 976 505 |
| 11 | CCB | 184 663 980 | 651 409 215 |
| 12 | Capman | 163 949 485 | 377 362 668 |
| 13 | SIS | 125 577 090 | 124 761 867 |
| 14 | Fina-S | 105 244 808 | 103 090 470 |
| 15 | Bulbrokers | 93 852 317 | 1 582 815 929 |
| 16 | ING Bank | 87 817 360 | 188 631 237 |
| 17 | Piraeus Bank | 81 423 996 | 47 204 392 |
| 18 | TBI Invest | 75 314 311 | 175 697 862 |
| 19 | KTB | 71 261 844 | 104 326 290 |
| 20 | Intercapital Markets | 63 127 525 | 71 561 044 |
| 21 | EFG Securities | 61 897 286 | 0 |
| 22 | Naba Invest | 59 884 662 | 96 987 150 |
| 23 | Standard Investment | 59 769 670 | 109 819 723 |
| 24 | Ug Market | 56 941 863 | 108 924 239 |
| 25 | EIBank | 46 193 842 | 4 205 693 150 |
| 26 | Zagora Finacorp | 35 800 310 | 59 208 425 |
| 27 | BulTrend Brokerage | 32 463 858 | 50 277 138 |
| 28 | UBB | 29 139 968 | 198 113 404 |
| 29 | Balkan Advisory Company | 28 830 885 | 208 001 835 |
| 30 | Tokuda Bank | 27 301 724 | 4 918 159 |
| 31 | KD Securities | 26 980 060 | 51 661 174 |
| 32 | Beta Corp | 25 385 035 | 230 929 411 |
| 33 | Status Invest | 24 215 130 | 51 935 897 |
| 34 | Somoni | 23 576 116 | 47 068 312 |
| 35 | Aval In | 23 141 822 | 63 070 544 |
| 36 | Allianz Bank | 22 951 325 | 51 018 416 |
| 37 | MKB Unionbank | 21 076 694 | 42 727 698 |
| 38 | Astra Investment | 17 571 452 | 0 |
| 39 | Deltastock | 16 838 166 | 42 094 341 |
| 40 | Populiarna Kasa 95 | 16 816 246 | 28 777 678 |
| 41 | Zlaten Lev | 15 930 874 | 20 727 103 |
| 42 | Positiva | 15 711 394 | 21 036 832 |
| 43 | Fico Invest | 15 615 260 | 42 859 900 |
| 44 | Ever | 14 255 934 | 50 834 335 |
| 45 | FIBank | 14 129 456 | 56 502 888 |
| 46 | Bora Invest | 14 076 597 | 45 189 712 |
| 47 | Municipal Bank | 13 788 449 | 7 244 476 |
| 48 | International Asset Bank | 13 064 908 | 34 414 481 |
| 49 | Dealing Financial Company | 12 710 672 | 54 474 351 |
| 50 | Varchev Finance | 12 534 876 | 16 256 629 |
| 51 | DISL Securities | 12 495 674 | 18 877 196 |
| 52 | BACB | 11 621 205 | 22 071 712 |
| 53 | KM Invest | 11 167 454 | 10 708 237 |
| 54 | Focal Point Investments | 10 319 141 | 0 |
| 55 | Capital Engineer Project | 8 784 365 | 13 594 611 |
| 56 | Capital Finance | 6 725 234 | 14 099 086 |
| 57 | DSK Bank | 6 265 745 | 11 626 729 |
| 58 | ABV Invest | 5 905 178 | 9 585 636 |
| 59 | Balkan Investment Company | 5 725 087 | 7 230 672 |
| 60 | D Bank | 4 991 327 | 1 201 782 |
| 61 | MacCap | 4 530 114 | 30 414 902 |
| 62 | Favorit | 4 082 431 | 7 375 780 |
| 63 | Capital Markets | 3 541 474 | 11 052 789 |
| 64 | Factory | 3 227 388 | 14 787 119 |
| 65 | Sofia Invest Brokerage | 2 752 735 | 53 446 235 |
| 66 | DZI Invest | 2 685 716 | 6 036 939 |
| 67 | Makler 2002 | 2 525 008 | 4 594 002 |
| 68 | KBC Securities | 1 949 174 | 0 |
| 69 | BG ProInvest | 1 848 734 | 5 261 633 |
| 70 | Eurodealing | 1 741 554 | 7 846 382 |
| 71 | Bulex Invest | 1 595 169 | 17 888 067 |
| 72 | Emporiki Bank | 1 553 177 | 6 158 993 |
| 73 | BBG Simex | 560 730 | 2 603 299 |
| 74 | Bulfin Invest | 489 188 | 2 032 732 |
| 75 | CEE Securities | 487 135 | 0 |
| 76 | VIP-7 | 407 929 | 931 620 |
| 77 | Metric | 107 219 | 1 565 174 |
| 78 | Adamant Capital Partners | 352 | 0 |
| 79 | Teximbank | 30 | 5 197 |