The regulator underlined that the capital adequacy level of the banking system reached 24.3%, which exceeds the minimal requirement of the Basel Committee on banking supervision by threefold (8%).

The current liquidity level has been exceeding 65% in last five years, which is also twice more compared to the minimal level.

The assets of the bank grew by 30.7% year-on-year in the reporting period and reached 37 trillion soums, the regulator said.

Total volume of loans, issued to real sector of economy, increased by 31% year-on-year in six months of 2013 and currently makes up over 21.3 trillion soums.

The volume of loans, allocated for investment purpose, rose 1.3 times year-on-year and reached over 3.4 trillion soums as of 1 July 2013.

Measures on financial rehabilitation of economically insolvent enterprises and modernization of the capacities helped fully rehabilitate activities of 123 enterprises, which were realized to strategic investors. They exported goods for US$601.5 million.

The commercial banks increased allocation of loans to small businesses by 1.3 times to 3.7 trillion soums in the first half of 2013. The volume of issued micro loans rose 1.4 times to 775 billion soums.

The Uzbek banks pay great attention to finance projects of youth, who graduated colleges. The volume of loans issued to them reached 54 billion soums, which rose 2.3 times year-on-year.

The Central Bank of Uzbekistan said that the volume of deposits of population rose 30.5% year-on-year to over 23.1 billion soums.