YEREVAN, October 11. / ARKA /. The amount of deposits kept by all 21 commercial banks of Armenia at the end of August amounted to more than 1.123 trillion drams growing by 3.9% from July, the Central Bank of Armenia said in a statement.
It said also the amount of deposits in the national currency, the dram, rose by 0.5 percent from July to 327.5 billion drams. The deposits in foreign currencies were said to have increased by 5.4% to 796 billion drams.
Some 95% of all dram deposits (311 billion drams) were owned by residents. This figure compared with July did not change. ($ 1 – 406.78 drams). -0-
