OREANDA-NEWS. February 04, 2013. This year’s contest, held by the Central Bank of the Republic of Uzbekistan and Uzbekistan Banking Association, was attended by 29 commercial banks, about 840 bank branches, more than four thousand mini-banks.

Chairman of the Central Bank of Uzbekistan F.Mullajanov, chairman of the Senate Committee on Budgetary issues and Economic Reforms A.Altiev, chairman of the Uzbekistan Banking Association S.Abdullaev and others underlined that the consistent reforms under the guidance of President Islam Karimov in the banking system yield significant results. Increase in bank deposits as a result of exemption of peoples’ deposits from all taxes, abolition of the requirement to require the deposit sources, state guarantees to ensure their repayment.

Currently, commercial banks in Uzbekistan offer more than 250 types of deposits in national and foreign currencies without restriction in the volume. As a result, in 2012 the volume of bank deposits grew by 34.6 per cent compared with 2011.

The competition assessed the activities of commercial banks in 2012 on attracting free funds of population on 8 main and 11 additional categories.

The National bank for foreign economic activity of the Republic of Uzbekistan won the title of the Best bank of 2012 on attracting deposits.

- In 2012 our bank introduced around 20 new deposit schemes for a period of two to twelve months, - says the head of deposit operations of the National Bank Otabek Mirzaev. - As a result, individuals’ deposits volume increased by 30.3 per cent compared to the same period of 2011. In the year of Wellbeing and Prosperity, we plan to expand the range of services provided to customers and introduce more attractive types of deposits.

Sergeli district branch of Uzbekistan Industrial-construction bank, Kitab district branch of People’s Bank, Tashkent city branch of the Asaka Bank, "Yunusobod" mini-bank of Capitalbank, "Khazor" mini-bank of Microcreditbank in Navoi region, Tashkent city branch of Turkistonbank and the Tashkent regional branch of Invest-finance bank.

The winners were awarded with diplomas and valuable gifts.