Challenging Business Environment for Croatian Banks

Politics ♦ Published: February 12, 2014; 10:53 ♦ (Vindobona)

Last year profits of Croatian banks declined more than 73 percent.

Challenging Business Environment for Croatian Banks / Picture: © Vindobona.org

Profits of Croatian banks have been declining sharply. In 2013 30 financial institutes operating in Croatia earned HRK 756.72m (€ 98.93m) which is a drop by 73 percent compared to the previous year when profits came at HRK 2.8bn. Moreover, the number of active banks dropped from formerly 32.

The reasons for the strong decline in profits are the growing unemployment and the…