September 17 (SeeNews) - The loan portfolio of commercial banks in Albania amounted to some 419.2 billion leks ($4.63 billion/3.14 billion euro) at the end of July, 17.4% up from a year earlier, central bank statistics indicated.
On a monthly basis the banks' July credit portfolio was 1.0% lower.
At the end of 2008 the banks’ credit portfolio totalled 396.3 billion leks, 35% up on the year.
Details follow (in billions of leks):
|
End-July'09 |
End-July'08 |
End-June'09 |
Total credits |
419.193 |
357.032 |
423.339 |
-to public non financial corporation |
12.597 |
6.018 |
14.651 |
-to other non financial corporation |
261.594 |
221.345 |
261.619 |
-to other financial corporation |
0.373 |
0.185 |
0.401 |
-to resident sectors |
144.629 |
129.484 |
146.669 |
Albania’s 16 commercial banks serve a market of some 3.2 million people.
(1 euro=133.5286 Albanian leks)