OREANDA-NEWS. February 02, 2011. In 2010 the National Bank of Uzbekistan for Foreign Economic Activity (NBU) served 114 investment projects worth USD 3.71 billion.

Last year the bank actively worked on increase of investment activity, its presence in local exchange market and participation in investment processes, modernization, technological and technical re-equipment of enterprises of different sectors of economy by entering the number of shareholders and participants of strategically important enterprises.

As of 1 January 2011 NBU invested 64.1 billion soums to modernization and renewal of the production at branch companies of enterprises established on the basis of the property of economically insolvent enterprises. As a result, branch companies manufactured goods worth a total of 136.8 billion soums and created 5,825 new workplaces.