Residents of Bashkortostan store in banks 250.7 billion rubles

UFA, 15 January 2015. /Bashinform News Agency, Elvira Latypova/. The balances of individuals on bank deposits increased by 2.2 percent and amounted to 250 billion 747.2 million rubles in Bashkortostan in January-November, the statistics department of the National Bank of the Republic of Bashkortostan Ural Main Directorate CBR informs following the first 11 months of 2014. The All-Russian trend is higher: plus 7.5 percent since the beginning of the year.

Weighted average interest rates on deposits of individuals amounted to 6.8 percent per annum for deposits in rubles in the republic in November, 2.6 percent - in US dollars, 2.4 percent - in euros. This is higher than the rates in November 2013 by 1.6 percentage points on ruble deposits and by 0.6 percentage points - on deposits in dollars and euros.

As of December 1, 88 credit institutions operated in Bashkortostan, including seven republican ones.