The bank’s loan portfolio narrowed 2.5% to 2.04 trillion soums, with a 57.9% share of long-term loans.

Liabilities went up by 9.3% to 3.67 trillion soums, including a 21.1% rise in personal deposits to 223.5 billion soums. The bank’s capital increased 8.5% to 539 billion soums as of 31 December.

The bank obtained net profit of 20.2 billion, up from 9.8 billion soums.

NBU was established in 1991. It is currently a universal commercial bank with offices and branches throughout Uzbekistan with 1.5 million clients.

NBU was ranked number 53 by asset value among CIS banks and first in Uzbekistan in the Interfax-1000: CIS Banks for the first half of 2007. The review is compiled by the Interfax Center for Economic Analysis.