Latvian monetary financial institutions (MFIs), mainly banks, generated an aggregate profit of EUR 341.7mn in 2025, which was down 34.5% from EUR 521.4mn in 2024, according to the Bank of Latvia, LETA reports. MFIs had assets totalling EUR 31.687bn at the end of 2025, which was up 5.9% from EUR 29.913bn a year earlier. The…
Latvian monetary financial institutions (MFIs), mainly banks, generated total profits of EUR 461.7mn in the first ten months of 2024, which was down 22.6% from EUR 596.2mn in the same period of 2023, according to data from the Bank of Latvia, LETA reports. The total assets of MFIs amounted to EUR 29.23bn at the end…
The Latvia-based commercial bank, Citadele, posted a net profit of EUR 50.9mn in the Baltic States in the first half of 2024, which was down 21% from EUR 64.5mn in the same period of 2023, bne IntelliNews reports. The bank’s operating income rose by 2% to EUR 116.1mn, with interest revenue increasing by 9% to…
Latvian financial institutions, including banks, generated total profits of EUR 573.5mn in 2023, which was up 75% from EUR 326.3mn in 2022, according to data from the Bank of Latvia, LETA reports. The total assets of monetary financial institutions amounted to EUR 27.874bn at the end of 2023, which was up 3% from EUR 27.056bn…
Latvia’s largest commercial bank, Swedbank Latvija, posted a net profit of EUR 274mn in 2023, which was a more than double increase from EUR 132mn in 2022, LSM reports. Net interest income rose by EUR 193mn and net commission income by EUR 5mn over a year. Total expenditure amounted to EUR 138mn, which was up…
Estonia’s Swedbank posted a net profit of EUR 385mn in 2023, which was up EUR 193mn (nearly 100%) from the same period of 2022, ERR reports. Revenue rose by EUR 309mn over a year, with net interest income up EUR 244mn. New loans issued to private customers amounted to EUR 1.05bn (up 5%) and to…
The Baltic banking group, Luminor, reported a net profit of EUR 178.3mn in the first nine months of 2023, which was up more than double from EUR 84.4mn in the same period of 2022. Net income on interest amounted to EUR 399.1mn (EUR 202.4mn) and net income on fees and commissions to EUR 63.8mn (EUR…
Latvian banks made a total profit of EUR 350.312mn in the first half of 2023, which was up 2.6 times from EUR 132.526mn in the corresponding period of 2022, according to data from the Bank of Latvia, LETA reports. The banking sector’s overall profit for the first six months of 2023 was higher than for…
Estonia’s Bigbank posted a net profit of EUR 17.0mn in the first half of 2023, which was up 21% from EUR 14.1mn in the same period of 2022, GlobeNewswire reports. Net interest income amounted to EUR 46.7mn (EUR 39.7mn) and net fee and commission income to EUR 4.0mn (EUR 3.6mn). In the second quarter of…