November 13 (SeeNews) - The loan portfolio of commercial banks in Albania amounted to some 427.45 billion leks ($4.63 billion/3.11 billion euro) at the end of September, up 13.2% from a year earlier, central bank statistics indicated.
On a monthly basis the banks' end-September credit portfolio was 1.0% higher.
At the end of 2008 the banks’ credit portfolio totalled 396.3 billion leks, up 35% on the year.
Details follow (in billions of leks):
|
|
End-Sept'09 |
End-Sept'08 |
End-Aug'09 |
| Total credits |
427.448 |
377.677 |
423.280 |
| -to public non financial corporation |
12.815 |
7.205 |
12.840 |
| -to other non financial corporation |
268.610 |
234.502 |
264.991 |
| -to other financial corporation |
0.357 |
0.243 |
0.364 |
| -to resident sectors |
145.666 |
135.727 |
145.085 |
Albania’s 16 commercial banks serve a market of some 3.2 million people.
(1 euro=137.6124 Albanian leks)