{"id":13532,"date":"2017-05-02T06:03:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T06:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sr-management.bg\/banks-profit\/"},"modified":"2017-05-02T06:03:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T06:03:00","slug":"banks-profit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sr-management.bg\/nl\/banks-profit\/","title":{"rendered":"Banks&#8217; Q1 Profit at BGN 288M"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the first quarter of 2017, the banking system posted an <b>increase<\/b> in <b>deposits<\/b>, <b>assets<\/b> and balance sheet capital. The banks&#8217; high liquidity was preserved.<\/p>\n<p>Total liquid <b>assets<\/b> stood at BGN\u00a030.9 bln\u00a0as at the end of March, up by BGN 539M (1.8%) from the previous quarter. The liquid asset ratio reached 38.80 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>The <b>banking sector<\/b> posted a first-quarter profit of BGN 288M, BGN 18M less than a year earlier.\u00a0 The impairment costs on loans and receivables accumulated in the first quarter stood at BGN 125M, compared to BGN 175M a year earlier. As at March 31, the banking system reported a return on <b>assets<\/b> of 1.24% and a return on equity of 9.44%.<\/p>\n<p>The banking system&#8217;s <b>assets<\/b> increased by 0.9% to BGN 92.9 bln.<\/p>\n<p>An <b>increase<\/b> was registered in lending to <b>households<\/b> (by BGN 275M, 1.5%) and non-financial corporations (by BGN 132M, 0.4%). A decrease was registered in lending to other financial corporations (by BGN 81M) and to the general government sector (by BGN 35M).<\/p>\n<p>At the end of March, the gross amount of non-performing <b>loans and advances<\/b> in the banking system totalled BGN 9,966M (compared to BGN 9,961M at the end of December 2016).<\/p>\n<p><b>Deposits<\/b> in the <b>banking sector<\/b> increased by BGN 276M (0.4%) in the first quarter, the central bank reported.<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0http:\/\/www.novinite.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the first quarter of 2017, the banking system posted an increase in deposits, assets and balance sheet capital. The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11458,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[201],"tags":[573,574],"class_list":{"0":"post-13532","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sr-blog-bulgaria-news-nl","8":"tag-banks-nl","9":"tag-profit-nl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sr-management.bg\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sr-management.bg\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sr-management.bg\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sr-management.bg\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sr-management.bg\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sr-management.bg\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sr-management.bg\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sr-management.bg\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sr-management.bg\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sr-management.bg\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}