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17 June 2019 07:10 am
*CBCG – LIQUIDITY – APRIL
Average liquid assets €934.1 million
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Podgorica, (MINA-BUSINESS) - According to the statistics of the Central Bank of Montenegro (CBCG), average liquid assets of Montenegrin banks saw a monthly decrease of 2.9 percent in April to €934.1 million.
Compared with April of 2018, the average liquid assets declined by five percent.
The liquidity index of the banking system was above the required minimum in April, expect for one bank whose liquidity index was lower than required at a daily and ten-day level.
At the end of April, the combined balance of all banks amounted to €4.34 billion, and it was 1.5 percent lower than the month before, and 4.1 percent higher than in April of 2018.
In the overall structure of banks’ assets, the highest share was that of loans with 67.9 percent, cash and deposits with central banks with 18.3 percent, while other categories of assets accounted for the remaining 13.8 percent.
In the overall structure of liabilities, deposits had the highest share with 76.6 percent, followed by capital and loans with 12.1 percent and 7.7 percent respectively. Other categories of liabilities accounted for the remaining 3.6 percent.
At the end of April, the total capital of banks amounted to €526.8 million, up 1.6 percent on the month before, and 4.7 percent more than in the corresponding period of 2018.
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