BUDAPEST: The Hungarian bank sector’s after-tax profit jumped to 632 billion forints ($2.45 billion) in 2017 based on preliminary data from 423 billion forints in 2016, the National Bank of Hungary said on Wednesday.
While interest income at a total of 775 billion forints was half a percent below the 2016 levels, commissions income rose 0.5 percent. Operating costs declined by 1.3 percent from 2016.
A freeing-up of provisions increased banks’ profits by 188 billion forints last year,