November 12 (SeeNews) - The deposit portfolio of commercial banks operating in Albania stood at some 637.144 billion leks ($6.92 billion/4.64 billion euro) at the end of August, 2.9% lower than a year earlier, central bank data indicated.
The banks' End-August deposit portfolio was 4.1% higher than a month earlier.
Details follow (in billions of leks):
|
End-Aug'09 |
End-Aug'08 |
End-July'09 |
Total deposits |
637.144 |
656.070 |
611.779 |
-lek deposits |
359.324 |
368.450 |
356.802 |
-fx deposits |
277.819 |
287.620 |
254.977 |
-transferable deposits |
64.243 |
57.673 |
63.310 |
-other deposits |
279.739 |
293.898 |
277.676 |
Albania’s 16 commercial banks serve a market of some 3.2 million people.
(1 euro=137.4324 Albanian leks)