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Armenian banks’ customers grew last year by 18 percent to 1.89 million

YEREVAN, March 4. / ARKA /. Armenia-based 21 commercial banks had 1,899,204 customers in 2013 late December, an increase of almost 18 percent from the previous year, the National Statistical Service (NSS) reported.

The number of corporate customers grew by 5.1 percent from 2012 December to 76,239, while the number of individual customers surged by 18.3 percent to 1,822,965 people, NSS said.

In late December last year all the banks had more than 3,201,229 accounts, by almost 64 percent more from the year before, including 3,034, 229 individual bank accounts, by 55 percent more from the year before. Corporate bank accounts grew by 29.6 percent to 167, 000.

In late January 2014, all 21 banks kept 791.2 billion drams worth individual deposits, by 984 million drams or 0.1 % more from the previous month. Compared to the same time span in 2012 the deposits grew by 143.8 billion drams or 22.2 %. ($ 1 – 413.60 drams). -0-

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