The banks' deposit portfolio rose to 145.45 billion lei at the end of September from 109.66 billion lei a year earlier, according to the central bank's monthly statistics.
Details follow (in billions of lei):
End-Sept'08 | End-Aug'08 | End-Sept'07 | |
Total loans | 194.17 | 183.63 | 129.06 |
Lei loans | 85.32 | 83.50 | 62.65 |
-to individuals | 41.02 | 40.25 | 31.01 |
--consumer loans | 37.98 | 37.25 | 29.03 |
--mortgage loans | 1.60 | 1.59 | 1.31 |
--other | 1.43 | 1.40 | 0.66 |
-to companies | 42.28 | 41.20 | 30.61 |
FX loans | 108.86 | 100.13 | 66.41 |
-to individuals | 55.03 | 50.32 | 29.47 |
-to companies | 51.30 | 47.42 | 34.83 |
Total deposits | 145.45 | 141.33 | 109.66 |
-individuals | 81.08 | 79.03 | 58.55 |
--lei | 50.32 | 49.89 | 37.72 |
--FX | 30.77 | 29.13 | 20.82 |
-companies | 57.17 | 55.47 | 44.80 |
--lei | 39.62 | 38.19 | 32.16 |
--FX | 17.55 | 17.28 | 12.64 |
European Union member Romania, with a population of 21.5 million, has 39 banks. Its banking system's assets totalled 316.7 billion lei at the end of September.
(1 euro = 3.8504 Romanian lei)