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Loan commitments and financial guarantee contracts (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2020
Loan commitments and financial guarantee contracts |
Schedule of bank's outstanding loan commitments and financial guarantee contracts | The Bank’s outstanding loan commitments and financial guarantee contracts are as follows:
|  | December 31, |  | December 31,
|  | 2020 |  | 2019
Documentary letters of credit |  | 216,782 |  | 169,320
Stand-by letters of credit and guarantees - commercial risk |  | 210,497 |  | 255,481
Credit commitments |  | 137,619 |  | 68,571
Total loans commitments and financial guarantee contracts |  | 564,898 |  | 493,372
Schedule of remaining maturity profile of the bank's outstanding loan commitments and financial guarantee contracts | The remaining maturity profile of the Bank’s outstanding loan commitments and financial guarantee contracts is as follows:
|  | December 31, |  | December 31,
Maturities |  | 2020 |  | 2019
Up to 1 year |  | 419,015 |  | 424,744
From 1 to 2 years |  | 75,883 |  | 8,628
Over 2 to 5 years |  | 70,000 |  | 60,000
Total |  | 564,898 |  | 493,372

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