Baku, Azerbaijan, Jan. 31
By Fatih Karimov - Trend: Foreign assets of Iranian banks rose by 19 percent in the first nine months of the current Iranian calendar year, started on March 21, 2014, compared to the same period of the past year.
Foreign assets of Iranian banks amounted to 2.15 quadrillion rials (about $61.4 billion), Iran's ISNA news agency reported on Jan. 31.
The Central Bank of Iran's balance sheets shows that the banks' foreign assets increased from 980 trillion rials (about $28 billion) in the ninth calendar month of Azar in 2012 (ended on Dec. 21) to 1.17 quadrillion rials (about $33.4 billion) in the same month in 2014.
This is while the assets rose 5.6 percent in autumn compared to the end of the past year, reaching from 2.04 quadrillion rials (about $58.2 billion) to 2.150 quadrillion rials (about $61.4 billion).
The Central Bank of Iran's assets in foreign banks stood at almost 1.68 quadrillion rials (about $47.7 billion) at the end of the eighth calendar month of the current Iranian calendar year.
The figure shows some 9.3 percent increase compared to same period previous year.