Over the past week, banks issued UAH 1.2 billion of affordable loans to entrepreneurs. Since the beginning of the “5-7-9 Affordable Loans” program launch, businesses have received 46,400 loans for a total amount of UAH 135.9 billion.
Entrepreneurs took the most anti-crisis loans – UAH 59.6 billion, and UAH 28.3 billion – resource for refinancing previously received loans. In addition, 16.5 billion UAH was issued for anti-war purposes and UAH 10.8 billion – for investment purposes. Agricultural companies received UAH 19.7 billion in loans to support their activities, while trading companies received UAH 972.6 million in loans to replenish working capital.
Enterprises operating in the field of agriculture (52%), trade and production (24%) and industrial processing (14%) are most often credited under the program. Among the regions, Lviv, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Odesa, Kyiv, Vinnytsia regions and the city of Kyiv are the leaders in terms of the sums of concluded credit agreements.
To date, 42 banks participate in the program, the largest number of loans issued by Privatbank (19,400), Oschadbank (6,400) and Raiffeisen Bank Aval (4,100). (Government portal/Business World Magazine)