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In the first half of 2016 the JSC "Bank Silk Way" had $429.000 manat losses. They can be attributed to technical losses, since they arose due to allocations to reserves for possible losses of assets. According to the bank's report, in the first half were created reserves for possible losses in the amount of 7.124.000 manats. Operating profit of the Bank Silk Way for the period amounted to about 6.7 million manat.
Over six months the bank's income only for foreign exchange trading amounted to 3.7 million manats.
For July 1 of this year, Bank Silk Way assets amount to 364.4 million manats. Of these, the share of loans to customers, amounts to 346,200,000 manats. Of this amount, 193.8 million manats granted in foreign currency.
The volume of bank deposits totals 148.2 million manat, of which 132.8 million manat were invested in foreign currency. In 2015, with revenue of 32.4 million AZN the OJSC "Bank Silk Way" got 1.5 million manat net profit. Shareholders of Bank owned capital in the amount of 106.6 million manats. --08D--
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