Qatar National Bank (QNB) announced Sunday, February 11, its 2000 profits rose nine percent to 491 million riyals ($134.9 million) from 452 million riyals ($124.2 million) in 1999.
Customer deposits surged 42 percent to 18.2 billion riyals ( $5 billion) from 14.5 billion riyals ($3.5 billion) in 1999, QNB deputy chairman Said Mussanad said, quoted by the official QNA news agency. —(AFP)
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