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Banks’ Loan Portfolio Rises 7.7% Y/Y in April

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TIRANA, June 1 – The loan portfolio of commercial banks in Albania totalled 450.181 billion leks ($4.03 billion/3.28 billion euro) at the end of April, up 7.7% from a year earlier, central bank statistics indicated, SeeNews reported.
On a monthly basis, the Albanian the banks’ end-April credit portfolio was 0.3% higher.
At the end of 2009 the banks’ credit portfolio totalled 440.4 billion leks, up 11.1% on the year.
The deposit portfolio of commercial banks operating in Albania totalled 693.198 billion leks ($6.21 billion/5.05 billion euro) at the end of April, 14.1% higher than a year earlier, central bank data indicated.
The Albanian banks’ end-April deposit portfolio was 0.1% higher than a month earlier.

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