Arab Jordan Investment Bank announced that its profits in the first half of 2014 increased by 13.8% to JOD 9.7 million compared with JOD 8.5 million in the same period of 2013.

Earnings per share kept flat from last year at JOD 0.078.

Financial statement stated that the bank’s interests payable rose by 6.69% to JOD 30.6 million in the first half of 2014 compared with JOD 28.7 million in the first half of the last year.

In the second quarter this year, the bank’s profits increased by 25.75% to JOD 5.7 million against JOD 4.5 million in the same period last year.