Damascus, SANA- Director General of the Central Bank of Syria “CBS” Firas Salman stressed that the total value of the deposits in both SYP and foreign currency in the first half of the current year reached about SYP 542 billion while the credit facilities hit SYP 423 billion.
Salman told SANA that the demand deposits in Syrian pound reached about SYP 281 billion, the term deposits hit SYP 62 billion and the saving deposits were estimated at SYP 48 billion, while the demand deposits in the foreign currency reached SYP 82 billion and term deposits in the foreign currency hit SYP 69 billions.
He indicated that credit facilities were distributed among facilities in Syrian Pound estimated at SYP 376 billion and facilities in foreign currency estimated at SYP 47 billion.
R.J/ Barry