YEREVAN, July 1. /ARKA/. At the end of 2013 April the number of corporate and individual customers of Armenian banks grew by 21.2 percent from a year before to 1,746,909. Compared with the previous month of April their number grew by 3.2 percent, the National Statistical Service told ARKA.
Of them 72,600 were corporate clients (an increase of 3.8% from 2012 April), while the number of individual clients grew by 22.1 percent to 1, 674,300.
At the end of April 2013 the banks had 2.9 million accounts, by 70 percent up from a year before. The number of individual bank accounts rose by 73 percent to 2.74 million, while the number of corporate bank accounts grew by 30 percent to 158,000.
At the end of May the total amount of individual deposits grew by 9.3 billion drams (1.4 percent) from April 2013 to 699.8 billion drams and by 167.9 billion drams or 31.6 percent from a year before. ($1 – 409.09 drams). -0-
