Under the pall of the coronavirus restrictions, the Slovak Central Bank recorded only a profit of €26 million in 2020, which amounts to a year-on-year drop of 87 percent, the bank's governor Peter Kažimír reported on Wednesday. The profit of €26 million was achieved mostly by financial activities. In 2019, the Central Bank recorded a profit of €212.1 million. The bank has boosted its general reserves for financial risks by €140 million and detailed that the coronavirus outbreak cost the central bank a total of €236 million, said Central Bank's spokesperson Peter Majer.
Zuzana Botiková, Photo: TASR
