OREANDA-NEWS. February 01, 2011. Uzbek banks are paying special attention to the financial support of small business and private entrepreneurship, said Chairman of the Central Bank of Uzbekistan in his report at the session on results of banking system activity in 2010 and foreground priorities set before the banking system.

The volume of credits issued to this sector increased almost 1.4 times to 2.7 trillion soums in 2010, including microcredits worth over 485 billion soums which went up 1.5 times in comparison with 2009.

More than 280,000 new workplaces were created due to these funds.