February 23 (SeeNews) - The value of Bulgarian banks' outstanding loans to the non-government sector increased by 3.1% year-on-year, reaching 50.7 billion levs ($27.2 billion/26.1 billion euro) at end-January, Bulgarian National Bank (BNB) data showed on Friday.
Corporate lending increased by an annual 1.6% to 30.6 billion levs as of end-January, while household credit rose 4.1% to 18.6 billion levs, data from BNB's monthly monetary statistics report indicated.
In January, loans to financial corporations grew 26.5% year-on-year, to 1.5 billion levs.
Details follow (in billions of levs, nominal change in percent):
|
Jan, bln levs |
Jan y/y |
Dec y/y |
Loans |
50.0 |
3.1 |
1.5 |
-non-fin corporations |
30.6 |
1.6 |
0.3 |
-households |
18.6 |
4.1 |
2.0 |
--overdraft |
1.36 |
-6.3 |
-9.0 |
--housing loans |
8.78 |
1.8 |
1.4 |
--consumer loans |
7.3 |
2.8 |
0.6 |
--other loans |
1.17 |
66.5 |
46.6 |
-financial corporations |
1.5 |
21.7 |
26.5 |
Source: BNB
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)