The banks' deposit portfolio rose to 141.33 billion lei at the end of August from 108.01 billion lei a year earlier, according to the central bank's monthly statistics.
Details follow (in billions of lei):
End-Aug'08 | End-July'08 | End-Aug'07 | |
Total loans | 183.63 | 178.69 | 122.10 |
Lei loans | 83.50 | 81.99 | 60.25 |
-to individuals | 40.25 | 39.30 | 30.03 |
--consumer loans | 37.25 | 36.36 | 28.15 |
--mortgage loans | 1.59 | 1.57 | 1.26 |
--other | 1.40 | 1.37 | 0.61 |
-to companies | 41.20 | 40.66 | 29.23 |
FX loans | 100.13 | 96.70 | 61.84 |
-to individuals | 50.32 | 48.52 | 27.00 |
-to companies | 47.42 | 45.83 | 32.76 |
Total deposits | 141.33 | 140. 37 | 108.01 |
-individuals | 79.03 | 78.16 | 56.88 |
--lei | 49.89 | 49.89 | 37.45 |
--FX | 29.13 | 28.27 | 19.43 |
-companies | 55.47 | 55.23 | 44.54 |
--lei | 38.19 | 37.10 | 32.21 |
--FX | 17.28 | 18.14 | 12.33 |
European Union member Romania, population 21.5 million, has 39 banks. Its banking system's assets totalled 304 billion lei at the end of August.
(1 euro = 3.7939 Romanian lei)