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Financial Supervision Commission (Bulgaria)

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Employees

227 filled

· of 282 approved posts — FY2025

FY2025

Annual budget

BGN 28.02M ≈ €14.33M

· expenditure — FY2025

FY2025

Supervised entities

~146

· authorised firms — FY2024–25 (mixed vintage)

FY2025

Overview

Bulgaria's Financial Supervision Commission regulates and supervises the non-banking financial sector — capital markets, insurance, and supplementary pension provision — and is the country's licensing authority for crypto-asset service providers under MiCA. It is a collegiate body elected by the National Assembly: a Chair, Deputy Chairs heading the three supervisory divisions, and further members, with a substantially renewed board seated in May 2025. Bulgaria's euro adoption on 1 January 2026 redenominated the investments, policies and pension assets the FSC oversees. Everything below is the FSC's own data, from its official publications.

Regulated sectors

Investment firmsAsset managersCrypto-asset service providersInsurance companiesPension fundsListed companies

Leadership

  • Vasil GolemanskiChair · since 27 March 2025
  • Denitsa VelichkovaDeputy Chair, Investment Supervision · since May 2025
  • Plamen DanailovDeputy Chair, Insurance Supervision · since May 2025
  • Silvia YordanovaDeputy Chair, Social Insurance Supervision · since May 2025

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Figures as published by Financial Supervision Commission (Bulgaria) for FY2025. Source: FSC Annual Report 2024 (English) (Published November 2025; FY2025 edition pending). Data as of 31 December 2025. Supplementary: FSC Board (English).

Organisation (FY2025)

ItemValue
Staff
227 filled (282 approved posts)
FY2025
Expenditure
BGN 28.02M ≈ €14.33M
FY2025
Authorised firms (mixed vintage)
~146
Composition — 53 investment intermediaries (FY2025) + 30 management companies + 16 standalone AIFMs + 37 (re)insurers + 10 pension insurance companies (end-2024)

Crypto / MiCA

ItemValue
MiCA CASPs authorised
0
Transitional VASP registrations
214
MiCA applications
4 (3 refusals)
Bulgarian MiCA implementation
Drafted by FSC during 2024–2025

Governance

ItemValue
Board renewal
March–May 2025
Chair Golemanski elected 27 March 2025; Deputies Velichkova, Danailov and Yordanova elected by the National Assembly in May 2025

Notable 2025–2026

ItemValue
Near-complete board renewal
In May 2025, with a new Chair and new members elected by the National Assembly.
Bulgaria's MiCA CASP authority
Two providers in the ESMA register as of July 2026.
Drafted the Bulgarian MiCA implementation act
During 2024–2025.
Euro adoption 1 January 2026
Redenominated the entire supervised perimeter — insurance, pensions and securities — in a single changeover.

Key legislation

  • Financial Supervision Commission Act

    Founding statute — collegiate body elected by the National Assembly

  • Public Offering of Securities Act

    Securities markets and listed issuers

  • Insurance Code

    Insurance sector

  • Bulgarian MiCA implementation act (drafted 2024–2025)

    CASP authorisation and supervision

Public registers

Application portals

Recent publications

Data as of 31 December 2025 · Source: www.fsc.bg + ComplyBridge researchActivity Index methodology →

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