Latvia: GDP to drop in 2020

Latvia’s GDP may decline by 7% this year, but if a second wave of COVID-19 comes, the country’s GDP may drop by 9%, as detailed in Finance Ministry’s macro-economic development scenario. The macro-economic scenario will be used as foundation for the state budget of 2021 and medium-term budget content in 2021-2023. The base scenario details…

Georgia: non-bank deposits up in June 2020

The total volume of non-bank deposits in Georgian banking sector in June increased by 1.95% MoM or by 549.44 million lari ($179.3 million), and constituted 28.77 billion lari ($9.3 billion), the National Bank of Georgia (NBG) reported. In June, the volume of term deposits increased by 291.09 million lari ($95.02 million) compared to May. Demand…