RIGHT OF REPLY

With regard to the publication on the Bivol website of April 28, 2017 titled: "The US Embassy has closed its accounts with FIBANK", the management of First Investment Bank AD would like to state the following:

The US Embassy has never had any accounts with Unionbank, and subsequently it has had no accounts with Fibank. So that talking about closure of accounts is not just an exaggeration, it is a distortion of the truth. What is more, only today Fibank announced its collaboration with Citigroup Global Markets Limited, one of the largest US companies. We would also like to remind that First Investment Bank AD works closely with Bain & Co, one of the two largest US consulting companies, and with the International Financial Corporation (IFC) of the World Bank.