Addressing the conference "The Croatian Financial Market" in the northern Adriatic resort of Opatija on Friday, Samodol said that the banking sector had performed well in 2008, increasing its assets and netting in a profit of HRK 5.7 billion.
The earnings of the banking sector in the first quarter of 2009 were HRK 1.43 billion, he added.
In the non-banking financial sector, the net aggregate losses last year were HRK 12 billion and assets were most drastically reduced in open-end funds.
Samodol said that an annual assembly of Zagreb Stock Exchange shareholders would be held on Monday 18 May, calling on the ZSE shareholders and owners to behave in a rational manner.