As of October 1, 2010, the banking sector in Georgia is represented by 19 commercial banks, including 14 foreign-controlled banks and two branches of non-resident banks. Compared with the previous month total assets of Georgian commercial banks (in current prices) increased by 23.5 million GEL (by 0.2 percent) and constituted 9869.2 million GEL. The banking sector’s own funds (equity capital) equal to 1696.5 million GEL, which makes up 17.2 percent of commercial banks’ total assets.

The share of foreign capital in banks’ total paid-in capital equals to 80.5 percent.

The banking sector finished September 2010 with profit, like the previous month. The net profit in September constituted 23.6 million GEL and the net profit year-to-date constituted 95.3 million GEL.

The share of five banks having the largest assets within the total amount of the banking sector assets increased by 0.7 percent compared to the previous month and constituted 78.0  percent.

Current statistical information is published on the statistics page of the NBG’s website.