Loan portfolio (in equivalent to national currency) comprised 2.335 trillion soums (in equivalent to national currency) or US$1.55 billion.

Targeted work of the bank allowed to increase number of customers to 2.077 million and accounts’ number to 2.891 million.

NBU said it issed loans in hard currency for over US$498.5 million and national currency for over 681.6 billion soums to realize measures of Ant-crisis programme, further increasing capitalization level and improving financial sustainability of enterprises of real sector.

In the reporting period, NBU serves 142 foreign loans on 106 investment projects for total sum of US$3.13 billion in equivalent.

As of 1 January 2010, NBU invested over 17.65 billion soums to bankrupt enterprises through its subsidiaries. The bank created NBU Invest Group and NBU Investments to manage bankrupt enterprises, which were transferred to its balance. Currently, they manage 23 enterprises.

The bank said as of 1 January 2010, these enterprises produced goods for 34.98 billion soums and create new jobs for 4,329 people.

Within the framework of financing projects due to foreign credit lines, NBU selected 237 projects with the cost of US$507.9 million, of which US$305.2 million is loan sum.

The volume of issued loans in national currency to small businesses due to own resources made up 304 billion soums in 2009. The small businesses received 2.6 billion soums due to off-budget funds in the reporting period. NBU allotted 4,200 microloans for 30.8 billion soums in 2009, the bank said.

The bank carried out work on attraction of free funds of population to deposits, which allowed to increase the volume of population deposits to 308.7 billion soums.

In 2009, NBU issued winning saving certificates for 8 billion soums. It also placed deposit certificates for legal entities for 94.3 billion soums and saving certificates for individuals for 7 billion soums.

NBU issued 454,400 banking cards in 2009 and their total number reached 1.773 million, the press service underlined.

Within so-called salary projects, the bank issued 541,900 banking cards, which makes up 30% of total emission volume. The transactions with banking cards through POS-terminals made up 446 billion soums.

The bank installed 7,262 POS-terminals at the enterprises throughout Uzbekistan. Total number of POS-terminals at trade-service points and banking establishments made up 7,382.