SARAJEVO (Bosnia and Herzegovina), August 24 (SeeNews) – Bosnia's Sberbank BH, a unit of Austria-based Sberbank Europe, said on Friday its first half net profit rose to 5.3 million marka ($3.1 million/2.7 million euro) from 4.0 million marka in the same period last year.
Net interest income fell 4.9% on the year to 18.2 million marka in the first six months, while net fee and commission income increased to 12.2 million marka from 8.0 million marka, Sberbank BH said in an income statement.
The bank's net assets totalled 1.6 billion marka at the end of June.
Sberbank BH is based in Sarajevo, in the Federation - one of the two autonomous entities that make up Bosnia.
Sberbank Europe operates another unit - Sberbank a.d. Banja Luka - in the country's other autonomous entity, the Serb Republic.
(1 euro=1.95583 Bosnian marka)