The average interest rate on foreign currency loans rose to 12.39% at the end of August from 10.80% a year earlier. The average interest rate on leu-denominated loans increased to 22.76% from 19.06% in August last year, the central bank said.
Details of Moldovan banks' loans follow (in billions of lei):
end-August'08 | end-July'08 | end-August'07 | |
credit portfolio | 24.376 | 24.327 | 17.980 |
Lei loans | 14.846 | 14.675 | 10.550 |
FX loans | 9.530 | 9.652 | 7.430 |
(1 euro=15.184 Moldovan lei)