October 19 (SeeNews) - Moldovan commercial banks' loan portfolio totalled 18.6 billion lei ($1.6 billion/1.1 billion euro) at the end of September, up 51.2% from a year earlier, the country's central bank, BNM, said on Friday.
The average interest rate on foreign currency loans fell to 10.9% in September from 11.05% a year earlier. The average interest rate on leu-denominated loans increased to 18.87% from 18.61% in September 2006.
Details of Moldovan banks' loans and deposits follow (in millions of lei):
|
|
end-Sept'07 |
end-Jan'07 |
end-Sept'06 |
| Credit portfolio |
18,555 |
13,731 |
12,319 |
| Lei loans |
10,895 |
8,537 |
7,669 |
| FX loans |
7,660 |
5,194 |
4,650 |
(1 euro=16.444 Moldovan lei)