BNR profit at RON 783.45 mln in 2015, down 30 pct compared with 2014

Newsroom 23/06/2016 | 11:06

The National Bank of Romania (BNR) got a profit of RON 783.45 million in 2015, a decrease of 30 percent compared with 2014, when it had a financial result of RON 1.12 billion, says its annual report for 2015.

BNR registered an operational profit of RON 895.16 million, with 29.5 percent under the operational profit of the last year, which was RON 1.27 billion.

Moreover, there were registered liabilities with unfavorable differences from the revaluation of assets and liabilities in hard currency at December 31, 2015 amounting RON 111.7 million, with 25.4 percent lower tan their value at December 31 2014, when they were RON 149.67 million.

The balance sheet shows at December 31, 2015 that 98.6 percent of the total assets of BNR are represented by external assets. At the same time, 22.4 percent of the total liabilities are represented by liquid assets attracted by BNR from the credit institutions under the form of mandatory minimum reserves, 31.7 percent is represented by cash and 22.3 percent by liquid assets of the state Treasury, while 0.3 percent from the total liabilities is the remaining reimbursed amount from the loan given to International Monetary Fund, mentions the report.

Georgiana Bendre