ZAGREBACKA BANKA ZAGREB, Oct 30 (Hina) - A record increase in foreign currency savings and the amount of loans paid to citizens marked the first nine months of this year's business in one of Croatia's leading banks, Zagrebacka banka.
If the growth trend continues until the end of the year as expected, 2000 could be a record year in those two segments, the bank's board member Zvonimir Jurjevic told a news conference on Monday on the occasion of world saving day. This year, foreign currency savings increased for over one billion German marks, totalling DM3.6 billion on Oct. 25. The loan portfolio, i.e. the amount of loans paid out to citizens, totalled 5.6 billion kuna (DM666 million) towards the end of September, strongly growing in the May-Sept. period and still growing in October. Sixty-eight percent of the said amount referred to housing loans, 19 percent to cash loans, and eight percent to car loans. Marking
ZAGREB, Oct 30 (Hina) - A record increase in foreign currency
savings and the amount of loans paid to citizens marked the first
nine months of this year's business in one of Croatia's leading
banks, Zagrebacka banka.
If the growth trend continues until the end of the year as expected,
2000 could be a record year in those two segments, the bank's board
member Zvonimir Jurjevic told a news conference on Monday on the
occasion of world saving day.
This year, foreign currency savings increased for over one billion
German marks, totalling DM3.6 billion on Oct. 25.
The loan portfolio, i.e. the amount of loans paid out to citizens,
totalled 5.6 billion kuna (DM666 million) towards the end of
September, strongly growing in the May-Sept. period and still
growing in October. Sixty-eight percent of the said amount referred
to housing loans, 19 percent to cash loans, and eight percent to car
loans.
Marking world saving day, Zagrebacka banka today allocated special
donations and a traditional award to the Academy of Visual Arts and
its most successful graduates.
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