Bank credit growth in Romania accelerates in April
BUCHAREST (Romania), May 28 (SeeNews) – The value of outstanding loans from Romanian banks to the non-government sector increased 8.3% year-on-year to 293.6 billion lei ($ 72.7 billion / 59.7 billion euros) in April, compared to a growth of 6.6% in March, the central bank BNR said.
Private lei loans increased 13.5 percent over the year to 206.4 billion lei in April, after increasing 11.3 percent in March, the BNR said in a statement on Thursday.
Private loans in foreign currencies fell 2.3% over the year to 87.1 billion lei in April, compared to a 3% decline in March.
The details follow (in billions of lei, nominal percentage change):
| Apr bln lei | Apr a / a | March / year | |
| Private loans (total) | 293,559.1 | 8.3 | 6.6 |
| Private loan in lei | 206,428.8 | 13.5 | 11.3 |
| – people | 123.469.6 | 11.0 | 9.3 |
| – companies | 82,959.2 | 17.3 | 14.4 |
| Private loans in foreign currencies | 87,130.3 | -2.3 | -3.0 |
| – people | 30,101.7 | -10.6 | -9.8 |
| – companies | 57,028.7 | 2.7 | 1.1 |
source: BNR
(1 euro = 4.9160 lei)