YEREVAN, June 1. /ARKA/. Number of customers at Armenian commercial banks was 1,692,866 as of March 2013, a 19.7% increase against the same period of the year before, ArmStat reports.

Number of legal entity customers was 72,500 at the end of March, an increase of 3.6% compared with March 2012. Number of individual clients rose by 20.5% to 1,620,300 people.

There were over 2.8 million account numbers at commercial banks of the country as of the end of March (23.1% increase). Personal bank account numbers totaled about 2.68 million, an increase of 24.2% compared with March 2012. There were 158,800 bank accounts held by legal entities in the period (7.9% increase).

Bank VTB (Armenia) joint accounts cover 3,469,462 customers.

Balance of deposits from the population was around 690.5 billion drams by the end of April, which is an increase of 0.9% over the month, and an increase of 33.6% or 173.5bln drams compared with the same period of the year before. ($1=417.22drams). –0--