The banks from UniCredit Group were awarded the highest score in Bulgaria for their custody services by the international magazine Global Investor, which published the results of its Annual Subcustody Survey. This is the second highest appraisal for the UniCredit banks in Bulgaria as Global Custodian magazine recently also gave the Best Custody Award to the custody team of UniCredit in Bulgaria.

Within Emerging markets UniCredit Group received the highest scores by Global Investor also in Chezh Republic, Estonia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine.

Global Investor is the leading international industry magazine for the international asset management community and is read by asset managers, pension plan sponsors, investment services providers and capital markets intermediaries.

UniCredit Group is the leading bank in Bulgaria, represented by Bulbank, HVB Bank Biochim and Hebros Bank. Together they are the strongest financial group with assets of more than 7 billion BGN and over 1 million clients. The three banks will become one – UniCredit Bulbank - in the second quarter of 2007.