Fee

Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan has declined to give information about claims that state-owned Halkbank paid the attorney fee of the bank’s former CEO, who is one of the key suspects of Dec. 17 corruption probe, citing banking secrets.

Registry Agency fee reduction will cost individuals and businesses nearly BGN 7M less by the end of 2014, Bulgarian Deputy PM and Justice Minister Zinaida Zlatanova said Tuesday.

During a business conference, Zlatanova pointed out that these funds can be invested in the economy, rather than go to administrative fees, BGNES informs.

Anyone legally residing in the EU would have the right to open a basic payment account, under a new law passed by European Parliament on Tuesday.

The fees that banks charge retailers for processing shoppers' payments would be capped under new rules voted by European Parliament on Thursday.

Measures to make online payments safer, reduce costs and give users more choice were adopted by a separate vote on the same day, an official press release on the EP website states.