DUSHANBE, July 9, 2009, Asia-Plus  -- Over the first six months of this year, Amonatbonk (Tajikistan’s savings bank) has provided 87.7 million somoni (equivalent to19.9 million U.S. dollars) in loans to some 5,000 customers, Mahmadamin Mahmadaminov, the chairman of Amonatbonk’s board, announced at a press conference in Dushanbe on July 8.

As of July 1, 2009, a loan portfolio balance amounted to 233 million somoni, which is 16 percent more than of the same date of last year, according to him.

“Amonatbonk’s net profit over the report period has amounted to 2.7 million somoni,” said Mahmadaminov, “The bank’s aggregate capital tripled in the year to June 30, 2009, reaching 109 million somoni and its assets rose 36.7 percent in the year to June 30, 2009, reaching 493 million somoni.”

The Amonatbonk head noted that deposits of legal and physical entities in the bank rose 27 percent in the year to June 30, 2009, reaching 316 million somoni.

Mahmadaminov noted that labor migrants had remitted 85.5 million U.S. dollars to Amonatbonk’s branches throughout the country over the first six months of this year, which was 39 percent fewer than in the same period of 2008.