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The Chairman of the Board of the International Bank for Economic Co-operation Denis Ivanov and IBEC delegation including a member of the Board Ms. Thinh Thi Hong, Director of the Client Relations Department Alexandra Matveeva and Head of the Project Group of the International Fund for Technological Development at IBEC Vadim Kulikov visited the Embassy of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in the Russian Federation and held a meeting with His Excellency Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Mr. Dang Minh Khoi, trade representative of Vietnam in the Russian Federation Mr. Duong Hoang Minh and representatives of the Embassy.

A delegation of the International Bank for Economic Co-operation, headed by a member of the Board Boyko Kotsev, took part in the international conference "Financial support for SMEs – SIMExpo 2021". The event, which took place in the capital of Bulgaria, Sofia, was organized by the Bulgarian Agency for the Support of Small and Medium Enterprises and the Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry with the support of the European Union. Among the participants were Bulgarian and European businessmen, representatives of Bulgarian and European business associations, representatives of key Bulgarian and European development institutions, including the EBRD, European Investment Fund, Bulgarian Development Bank, Bulgarian Investment Agency.

On September 3, 2021 Moody’s Investors Service (“Moody’s”) has changed the outlook on the International Bank for Economic Co-operation’s (IBEC) rating from Stable to Positive and has affirmed long-term foreign currency issuer rating at ‘Baa3’.

Today, September 1, in the building of the Bulgarian Stock Exchange in Sofia, an official ceremony "Ring-The-Bell" took place, marking the listing of the Bulgarian bonds issuance of the International Bank for Economic Co-operation (IBEC). Denis Ivanov, Chairman of the IBEC Board, gave a start to the stock exchange session by symbolically ringing the stock exchange bell together with the Deputy Minister of Finance of Bulgaria and the head of the Bulgarian delegation to the IBEC Council, Monika Dimitrova-Beecher, and Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bulgarian Stock Exchange Vasil Golemanski.