Banks operated as usual on Saturday, 9 August 2008.
- There were no queues reported at any of the bank branches.
- Furthermore, the NBG had agreed to the banks' request to conduct a Tbilisi Interbank Currency Exchange (TICEX) trading session on Saturday.
- The trading volume in the GEL/US$ currency pair was low, with several commercial banks selling the US$ and the NBG being the sole seller of GEL in the spot trading.
- The TICEX GEL/US$ exchange rate rose by 0.2% to 1.4130.
Press center of the Chancellery of the Government of Georgia