December 21 (SeeNews) - The loan portfolio of Moldovan commercial banks totalled 26.83 billion lei ($2.2 billion/1.7 billion euro) at the end of November, 15.7% up from a year earlier, the country's central bank said.
The average interest rate on foreign currency-denominated loans fell to 9.31% in November from 11.82% a year earlier. The average interest rate on leu-denominated loans fell to 15.24% from 18.88% in November 2009.
Details of Moldovan banks' loan portfolio follow (in millions of lei):
|
end-Nov'10 |
end-Oct'10 |
end-Nov'09 |
credit portfolio |
26,831.50 |
26,459.80 |
23,183.30 |
Lei loans |
15,523.10 |
15,387.40 |
13,272.20 |
FX loans |
11,308.40 |
11,072.40 |
9,911.10 |
(1 euro=16.0118 Moldovan lei)