The Central Bank said about 78% of total credit investments are long-term investment loans.

In nine months of 2009, the loans issued to support small and medium businesses grew 1.7 times to 1.4 trillion soums, the bank said.

About 262.5 billion soums of 1.4 trillion soums were microcredits, which is up 2.2 times year-on-year, the Central Bank noted.

The banking sector regulator said the deposits of the population at the credit institutions rose 1.7 times to 2.6 trillion soums.

Commercial banks of Uzbekistan issued 5.5 million banking terminals and installed 43,000 terminals at trade and service points as of 1 October 2009.

As earlier reported, the aggregate capital of commercial banks of Uzbekistan grew 1.4 times to almost 2.5 trillion soums. The banks’ assets rose 30% to 15.341 trillion soums.