September 24 (SeeNews) - The outstanding loans of Serbia's banking sector increased to 2.819 trillion dinars ($28.1 billion/23.8 billion euro) as at end-August, up 4.3% year-on-year, central bank data shows.
Loans to households rose by 10.4% to 990 billion dinars, while loans to privately owned companies edged up 1.5% to 1.022 trillion dinars, according to figures posted on the website of Serbia's central bank.
Total dinar-indexed time deposits at Serbian banks increased by 8.2% on the year to 221.6 billion dinars at end-August. Total foreign currency deposits rose by 6.2% to 1.475 trillion dinars.
The outstanding loans of Serbia's banking sector increased to 2.702 trillion dinars as at end-2017, up 1.2%.
(1 euro = 118.226 dinars)