The Bulgarian Stock Exchange marked the first trading session in euro with an official ceremony

SOFIA – The first session of the Bulgarian Stock Exchange (BSE) with trading in euros was officially marked with a ceremony in the BSE building in Sofia. After Bulgaria’s accession to the eurozone on 1 January 2026, the Bulgarian capital market now operates entirely in the single European currency for all exchange-traded instruments.

According to Vasil Golemanski, Chairman of the Financial Supervision Commission, today has historical significance for the capital market, the economy and the country as a whole.

With Bulgaria’s admission to the eurozone, the Bulgarian economy is fully integrated into the European one, Golemanski said.

He emphasized that the BSE’s turnover for 2025 has passed the threshold of 1 billion leva and expressed the wish that in the current 2026 it will exceed 1 billion euros.

Asen Yagodin, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the BSE, pointed out that the adoption of the euro is something that our country has been waiting for 28 years under a currency board regime. According to him, the board has contributed to the stability of public finances and has allowed the country to accumulate reserves and maintain low levels of indebtedness.

With entry into the eurozone and the redenomination of all our exchange-traded instruments into euros, it is expected that the investors we lost in 2009-2010, foreign investors, as well as Bulgarian ones, will return to our market, Yagodin said.

The Executive Director of the BSE Manyu Moravenov expressed confidence that years of growth lie ahead for the Bulgarian capital market.

The Bulgarian Stock Exchange is already a European platform on which good ideas find capital and good companies find growth. I am convinced that a new investment cycle is starting for the Bulgarian capital market of growth, of trust and of many more opportunities for integration, Moravenov said.

He notes that trading on the BSE in euros has already started and the first transactions in the new currency are a fact, while the main index SOFIX is reporting an increase of 2 percent since the beginning of the day.

The Executive Director of the BSE stated that this year the first simultaneous initial public offering (IPO) procedure on the BSE and on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange via the Eurobridge segment is also expected. (5.01.2025)