ATHENS, Nov 27 (Reuters) - Greece's Geniki Bank, majority-owned by France's Societe Generale, on Friday reported a nine-month loss of 51 million euros ($76.13 million) ($52 million), hurt by loan-loss provisions of 77.6 million.
The bank, which was taken over by SocGen in 2004 and is being restructured to compete with larger Greek banks, posted a loss of 29.8 million euros in the same period last year.
Geniki said its loan portfolio reached 4.0 billion euros at the end of September, down 2.6 percent from end-December 2008.

(Reporting by Harry Papachristou, editing by Will Waterman) ($1=.6699 Euro) Keywords: GREECE GENIKI/EARNINGS (harry.papachristou@thomsonreuters.com; +30 210 3376455; Reuters Messaging: harry.papachristou.reuters.com@reuters.net)

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