May 25 (SeeNews) - The value of Bulgarian banks' outstanding loans to the non-government sector increased by 4.3% year-on-year, reaching 51.4 billion levs ($29.5 billion/26.29 billion euro) at the end of April, Bulgarian National Bank (BNB) data showed on Thursday.
Corporate lending increased by an annual 3.3% to 31 billion levs as of end-April, while lending to households rose 5.2% to 18.9 billion levs, data from BNB's monthly monetary statistics report indicated.
As at end-April, loans to financial corporations were 18.1% higher year-on-year, at 1.46 billion levs.
Details follow (in billions of levs, nominal change in percent):
|
April, bln levs |
April y/y |
Loans to non-govt sector |
51.45 |
4.3 |
-non-fin corporations |
31 |
3.3 |
-households |
18.9 |
5.2 |
--overdraft |
1.3 |
-7.0 |
--housing loans |
8.9 |
2.7 |
--consumer loans |
7.4 |
3.4 |
--other loans |
1.27 |
78.5 |
-financial corporations |
1.46 |
18.1 |
Source: BNB
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)