On 7 December 2010, KBC acquired Ms Tzvetelina Borislavova’s remaining stake in Bulgarian CIBank and as a result is now the sole shareholder of the bank. In its press release, KBC also said it would immediately start the procedure for delisting the company from the Bulgarian Stock Exchange. Today, it received approval from the Bulgarian Financial Supervision Commission to remove the bank from the Register of Public Companies and

Today, KBC and Tzvetelina Borislavova signed an agreement in which KBC acquires Ms Borislavova’s remaining stake in the Bulgarian CIBank. In so doing, Ms Borislavova is exercising the seller put option which she had agreed on 24 September 2007 with KBC.

The exhibition «IN TIMES OF CHANGES: Modern Art in Belgium 1880 – 1950» is part of КВС’s collection and is organized by the Group’s two companies in Bulgaria – CIBANK and DZI - along with the Belgian Embassy in Bulgaria under the Belgian Presidency of the European Union.

From September 20th 2010 until the end of the year, CIBANK will offer this unique loan product - “I Want a Baby” - under preferential terms. The loan is up to BGN 12 000 and covers expenses for freezing of stem cells, infertility treatment and procedures for assisted in vitro reproduction.

Today for first time in the Clinic of Nephrology and Hemodialysis at the University Children’s Hospital a modern apparatus for the bloodless monitoring of vital parameters of sick children was used. The apparatus was donated by CIBANK and will answer the urgent needs of the clinic which every year treats over 500 children with serious illnesses. With the purchase of the first apparatus CIBANK started a charity campaign to raise funds