Board of the Central Bank of Uzbekistan held a session to sum up results for the first quarter of 2007 and perspectives of banking system.

 Aggregate capital of Uzbek commercial banks increased by 15.1% year-on-year to 1.1 trillion soums as of 1 April 2007, the session said.

 The session said the assets of the bank grew by 28% year-on-year to 7.516 trillion soums in the reporting period. Balance of population's deposit at the commercial banks increased by 51% year-on-year to 744.8 billion soums as of 1 April 2007.

 The Uzbek banks issued credits for 192.4 billion soums as of 1 April 2007 to support small and private businesses, as well as farmers.

 The number of issued plastic cards increased from 2.3 million as of 1 April 2006 to 3.3 million as of 1 April 2007.