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Loan commitments and financial guarantee contracts (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2021
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, 2021 |  | December 31, 2020
Documentary letters of credit | 214,230 |  |  | 216,782 |
Stand-by letters of credit and guarantees - commercial risk | 268,196 |  |  | 210,497 |
Credit commitments | 121,333 |  |  | 137,619 |
Total loans commitments and financial guarantee contracts | 603,759 |  |  | 564,898 |
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:
Maturities |  | December 31, 2021 |  | December 31, 2020
Up to 1 year |  | 542,137 |  |  | 419,015 |
From 1 to 2 years |  | 57,622 |  |  | 75,883 |
Over 2 to 5 years |  | 4,000 |  |  | 70,000 |
Total |  | 603,759 |  |  | 564,898 |

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