Criteria for choosing the winners included profitability, customer service, competitive prices and innovative products

The international financial magazine Global Finance named UniCredit Bulbank "Best Bank in Bulgaria 2012". The criteria for choosing the winners by country are growth in assets, profitability, strategic relationships, customer service, competitive prices and innovative products.

This is the nineteenth year that Global Finance has carried out its Best Bank survey. It covers Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, and Central and Eastern Europe.

“We remain in an unusually challenging environment for banks and their customers,” says Joseph Giarraputo, publisher of Global Finance. “More than ever, customers are demanding superior competence from their banking partners. These are the banks best providing that competence.”

The detailed results of the survey will appear in the May issue of Global Finance. The awards ceremony, which the CEO of UniCredit Bulbank, Mr. Levon Hampartzoumian, is invited to attend, will take place in Tokyo during the annual meeting of the World Bank on October 13, 2012.

Global Finance is a monthly international magazine whose main subscribers are top executives, entrepreneurs and financiers from 163 countries all over the world. It has representative offices in New York, London, Rio de Janeiro and Milan.

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