72,6% of deposits in Armenian banks is foreign currency

YEREVAN, MARCH 11, ARMENPRESS: The deposits of the legal and physical persons in the Armenian banks in the end of 2014 made 1 trillion 604 billion drams. 29,5% of it are demand deposits and 70,5% are term deposits. The Central Bank of Armenia told Armenpress that the demand and term deposits of the legal persons during the last trimester of 2014 increased by 5% and made 560,5 billion drams and the demand and term deposits of the physical persons increased by 6,1%, making 43,7 billion drams.

According to the currency structure, dram deposits decreased by 7,5%, while foreign currency deposits increased by 11,7%. In the result, the share of foreign currency deposits in the total deposits increased by 3,9%, reaching 72,6% in the last trimester.