Since the start of 2024, 4,516 entrepreneurs have received loans under the Affordable Loans at 5-7-9 programme totalling UAH 18 billion. Last week, 643 entrepreneurs received such loans for UAH 2.4 billion. Since the launch of the programme in February 2020, 83,500 loans worth UAH 285.1 billion have been issued.
Since the beginning of 2024, entrepreneurs have taken out the largest number of available loans to replenish working capital – UAH 8.7 billion. Banks granted UAH 3.7 billion in loans under the programme to processing companies, UAH 3.2 billion to businesses operating in the high-risk military zone and UAH 2.8 billion for investment projects.
The most frequently lent companies under the programme are those operating in the following sectors: agriculture (48%), wholesale and retail trade (25%) and processing industry (17%).
Among the regions, the leaders in terms of the amount of loan agreements concluded are Lviv, Dnipropetrovsk, Odesa, Kyiv, Kharkiv, Vinnytsia, Poltava regions and the city of Kyiv.
As of today, 45 banks participate in the programme, with Privatbank (38,100), Oschadbank (12,800) and Raiffeisen Bank Aval (5,400) disbursing the largest number of loans since the programme’s launch. (Government portal)