Turkey's banking sector posted a net profit of TL 50 billion ($6.39 billion) from January through October of this year, the country’s banking watchdog said on Monday.
The sector's net profit was up 21%, compared with TL 41.3 billion in the same period last year, according to the Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency (BDDK).
Total assets of the sector rose 44.3% year-on-year to some TL 6.23 trillion as of the end of October, the data showed.
Loans, the biggest sub-category of assets, were TL 3.66 trillion up 42.9% compared to the same period last year.
In terms of liabilities and deposits held at lenders in Turkey, the largest liability item totaled nearly TL 3.6 trillion, a rise of nearly 50% on an annual basis.
Pointing to lenders' minimum capital requirements, the banking sector's regulatory capital-to-risk-weighted-assets ratio - the higher the better - was 19.42% by the end of October, versus 18.49% in the same period of the previous year.
The ratio of non-performing loans to total cash loans - the lower the better - was 3.97% in the same period, versus 5.15% a year ago.
A total of 52 state/private/foreign lenders - including deposit banks, participation banks, and development and investment banks -conducted banking activities in Turkey as of October.
The sector had 204,653 employees, serving across 11,427 branches both in Turkey and overseas.
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