First Investment Bank (Bulgarian: Първа инвестиционна банка, Parva investitsionna banka), founded on 8 October 1993, is the seventh largest Bulgarian bank (measured in total assets). The bank is the mother bank of a financial group on the Balkans - it has a branch in Albania with 10 offices, one in Cyprus, as well as a subsidiary bank in Macedonia (Bulgarian: УНИБанка, UNIBank). First Investment Bank also controls CaSys International - an international card operator based in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia.
In Bulgaria it has 21 branches and 68 offices throughout the country. Its clients include 380,000 physical persons and 21,000 corporate bodies.
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