As of March 1, 2009, the banking sector in Georgia is represented by 19 commercial banks, including 13 foreign-controlled banks and 2 branches of non-resident banks. Compared to the previous month total assets of Georgian commercial banks (in current prices) increased by 36.0 million GEL (by 0.4 percent) and constituted 8418.5 million GEL. The banking sector’s own funds (equity capital) equal to 1532.9 million GEL, which makes up 18.2 percent of commercial banks’ total assets.

The share of foreign capital in banks’ total paid-in capital equals to 78.4 percent.

The share of five banks having the largest assets within the total amount of the banking sector assets increased by 0.4 percent compared to the previous month and constituted 78.5 percent.

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