Banks assets stand at $84.6 billion as of April 1

By Yaroslav Radlovsky ©

Aggregate assets of the Kazakhstan’s banks as of April 1 made up $84.6 billion, the National Bank’s Committee for Financial Supervision reports.Banks’ loan portfolio as of April 1 stood at $62.5 billion (growth of 0.5% in March). Foreign currency-denominated loans made up 49%. Total deposits grew 3.9% in March, making up $49.5 billion, with 67.8% being deposits of legal entities. The share of foreign currency-denominated deposits stood at 33.8%.