Dimitar Radev

Two committees of the Bulgarian Parliament will hold on Thursday hearings of the candidates for ombudsman and deputy governors of the Bulgarian National Bank (BNB).

The parliamentary Religious Denominations and Human Rights Committee will hold a hearing of the two candidates for ombudsman.

Dimitar Radev, the newly elected Governor of the Bulgarian National Bank (BNB), has announced that Kalin Hristov and Dimitar Kostov will remain Deputy Governors.

Dimitar Radev has been elected Governor of the Bulgarian National Bank (BNB).

Bulgaria's Parliament backed Radev out of a total of four candidates for the post.

Outgoing BNB Governor Ivan Iskrov was voted out of office by Parliament shortly before his successor was elected.

The Bulgarian Parliament will elect at an extraordinary plenary sitting on Tuesday the new governor of the Bulgarian National Bank (BNB).

The parliamentary Budget and Finance Committee held hearings of the four candidates on July 9.

The Bulgarian Parliament will elect the new governor of the Bulgarian National Bank (BNB) on July 14.

Bulgarian MPs decided on Friday to hold the hearing of the four candidates at an extraordinary sitting on July 14, daily Dnevnik reports.

The resignation of incumbent governor Ivan Iskrov, which had been announced in June, entered into force on Friday.

Strenghtening banking supervision and evaluation of banks' assets are key to successful reform of Bulgaria's banking sector, a nominee for a new chief of the country's central bank has said.

According to Dimitar Radev, the collapse of Corporare Commercial Bank, or KTB, has shown that Bulgaria is lacking tools for the restructuring of banks.

The budget and finance committee with the Bulgarian Parliament is due to hold on Thursday hearings of candidates to take over as Governors of the country's central bank.

This comes a day before lawmakers are due to point a successor to Ivan Iskrov, who stepped down in June a few months before his term had expired.

A hearing of the four nominees to take over as the Governor of the Bulgarian National Bank (BNB) is due next week, Parliament's Budget and Finance Committee has announced.

The development comes just hours after the incumbent Ivan Iskrov, whose term was to expire in October, stepped down.

A new Governor of the Bulgarian National Bank (BNB) is to be elected out of the four registered candidates on July 10, an official has said.

Menda Stoyanova, who heads the Budget and Finance Committee in Parliament, told public broadcaster BNT on Friday there will be "no political bargaining" prior to the procedure.

The Patriotic Front (PF) has nominated Grigorii Vazov for the position of Bulgaria's central bank governor.

The term of office of the incumbent Bulgarian National Bank (BNB) chief Ivan Iskrov will expire in October.