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24.11.2009.
Foreign exchange household savings have reached today their pre-crisis peak of EUR 5.74 billion (September 2008). The long-standing upward trend in foreign exchange savings ended with the spill over of the financial crisis into the country and the stock of savings declined by as much as EUR 965 million in Q4 2008 alone. The restoration of foreign exchange savings to the pre-crisis level is indicative of the overriding importance of building and maintaining households’ trust in the banking sector, which is one of the primary aims of the National Bank of Serbia.
On a constant rise since the start of the year, foreign exchange savings hiked by record EUR 392 million in the Savings Week (26 October – 6 November) or the Savings Month (in case of some banks), instilling optimism that the upward trend will continue and that savings will play a more important role in the aggregate banking sector balance sheet.
The NBS’s prudential measures enabling timely payouts to all panic-stricken savers also helped restore trust in the banking system. Alongside the measures of other government bodies to boost savings in 2009 (raising of the insured deposit limit from EUR 3,000 to 50,000 and the temporary abolishment of tax on foreign exchange saving interest income), the renewed growth in savings was aided by the comfortable liquidity position and stability of the banking sector.
Governor`s Office
