First Investment Bank - Cost Efficiency

First Investment Bank's cost to income ratio reached 55.4% in 2017, up from 43.5% compared to the previous year.

Historically, the bank’s costs reached an all time high of 76.2% of income in 2009 and an all time low of 34.1% in 2015.

When compared to total assets, bank's cost amounted to 2.50% in 2017, up from 2.28% a year earlier.

Staff accounted for 28.9% of total operating expenditures in 2017. The bank operated a network of 166 branches and employed 3,221 persons in 2017.

Comparing First Investment Bank with its closest peers, DSK Bank operated in 2017 with a cost to income ratio of 48.0% in 2017, United Bulgarian Bank reached 51.5% and Raiffeisenbank Bulgaria some 54.8%.

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