TIRANA, Feb.2 – BoA released data on the November credit portfolio of commercial banks in Albania which show a 3.8 percent monthly rise to 179.5 billion leks ($1.86 billion/1.43 billion euro). In October a rise of 4.4 percent was recorded. At the end of November, the credit portfolio of Albanian banks was 56.7 percent higher than a year earlier.
in billions of leks:
Nov 2006 Oct 2006 Nov 2005
Total credits 179.535 172.996 114.555
-lek credits 52.692 50.842 28.882
-fx credits 126.843 122.154 85.673
-to state sector 0.064 0.055 0.089
-to state non-fin. institutions 0.064 0.055 0.089
-to private sector 179.413 172.877 113.674
-to individuals 60.255 57.826 36.587
-to companies 119.159 115.051 77.087
-to other financial institutions 0.058 0.064 0.793
