Albanian Banks' End-Sept Deposit Portfolio Falls 4.0% Y/Y

November 13 (SeeNews) - The deposit portfolio of commercial banks operating in Albania stood at some 641.133 billion leks ($6.94 billion/4.66 billion euro) at the end of September, 4.0% lower than a year earlier, central bank data indicated.

The banks' End-September deposit portfolio was 0.6% higher than a month earlier.

Details follow (in billions of leks):

	End-Sept'09	End-Sept'08	End-Aug'09
Total deposits	641.113	667.656	637.144
-lek deposits	360.963	370.018	359.324
-fx deposits	280.150	297.638	277.819
-transferable deposits	60.190	58.661	64.243
-other deposits	285.791	294.712	279.739