November 3 (SeeNews) - The combined profit of Serbian banks rose by 67.2% on the year in the first half of 2017, reaching 34.1 billion dinars ($334.8 million/287.4 million euro), the central bank, NBS, said.
Return on assets (ROA) of Serbian banks increased by 0.79 of a percentage point year-on-year to 2.11%, while return on equity (ROE) went up 4.11 percentage points to 10.6%, the NBS said in a report on the performance of Serbian banking sector in the first half of 2017 .
The total assets of Serbia's banking system increased by 0.4% year-on-year in January-June, to 3.221 trillion dinars.
The combined loan portfolio of Serbia's banking sector grew by 1% to 2.004 trillion dinars, while the deposits in the banking system declined by 0.4% year-on-year to 2.225 trillion dinars at the end of June.
Banca Intesa АD Beograd remains leader in terms of assets with 543 billion dinars at the end of June, or 16.9% of the total assets of the Serbian banking sector.
The Serbian banking sector's non-performing loans (NPL) ratio declined to 15.6% at the end of June, down 1.2 percentage points compared to the end-March figure.
Details follow on the top ten Serbian banks in terms of assets (in billions of dinars):
|
H1'17 |
H1'16 |
|
Value |
Share |
Value |
Share |
Banca Intesa AD Beograd |
543 |
16.9% |
519 |
16.6% |
Komercijalna banka |
374 |
11.6% |
410 |
13.1% |
Unicredit Bank Srbija |
330 |
10.3% |
311 |
10.0% |
Raiffeisen Banka |
266 |
8.3% |
241 |
7.7% |
Societe Generale banka Srbija |
251 |
7.8% |
227 |
7.3% |
Agroindustrijska komercijalna banka (AIK) |
180 |
5.6% |
178 |
5.7% |
Eurobank |
151 |
4.7% |
144 |
4.6% |
Erste Bank Novi Sad |
143 |
4.5% |
127 |
4.1% |
Banka Postanska stedionica |
131 |
4.1% |
132 |
4.2% |
Vojvodjanska banka |
125 |
3.9% |
124 |
4.0% |
(1 euro = 118.631 dinars)