Finance minister Plamen Oresharski announced that he will present to the cabinet a strategy for privatisation of the stock exchange in the middle of next month. The ministry is thus expected to sell out its 44% stake in the Bulgarian Stock Exchange (BSE) by the end of the year. The other option under consideration is to select a strategic partner out of 7 candidates that have expressed interst so far: Scandinavia’s OMX, Greece ’s Hellenic Exchanges, Germany ’s Deutsche Boerse, Borsa Italiana , Austria ’s Wiener Borse, the Warsaw stock exchange, and the New York Stock Exchange.
Source: Intellinews - Bulgaria Today