December 1 (SeeNews) - Croatia's banks, including savings banks, posted a combined pre-tax profit of 2.07 billion kuna ($287.6 million/271.2 million euro) in the first nine months of 2015, provisional unaudited data from the country's central bank showed.
A year earlier, preliminary central bank data showed that Croatian lenders, including savings banks, posted a combined pre-tax profit of 1.96 billion kuna.
The combined total assets of the local banks amounted to 395.24 billion kuna at the end of September versus an audited 395.2 billion kuna at the end of December 2014, central bank data showed.
A total of 12 local banks were loss-makers in the first nine months of 2015, up from 10 a year earlier.
Zagrebacka Banka [ZSE:ZABA-R-A] was Croatia's top performer in the review period with a pre-tax profit of 1.48 billion kuna, the data from the central bank showed. It was followed by Privredna Banka Zagreb [ZSE:PBZ-R-A] and Raiffeisen Bank Austria with a pre-tax profit of 821.3 million kuna and 363.8 million kuna, respectively.
Among the loss-makers, Hrvatska Postanska Banka led the way with a pre-tax loss of 637.1 million kuna in the nine months through September. Jadranska Banka came in second with a pre-tax loss of 314.3 million kuna followed by Hypo Alpe-Adria-Bank with 128.2 million kuna.
Over the review period, 28 banks and savings banks operated in Croatia, a country of 4.3 million.
(1 euro=7.63604 Croatian kuna)