At the end of October, the total amount of loans granted to households and corporate clients reached 213.78 billion lei (EUR48.2 billion), compared with RON213.07 billion in the previous month, the data showed.
Private loans in Romanian lei rose 0.9% on the month, but foreign currency loans were down 0.2% when expressed in lei and 0.3% when expressed in euros.
Compared with October 2013, non-government lending fell 4.6% in real terms. Loans in Romanian lei rose 6.6% on the year in October, but forex loans declined 10.6% when expressed in lei and 10.2% when expressed in euros.
Deposits of non-government resident customers were up 0.7% on the month to RON217.96 billion in October.
End-October, government credit reached RON80.1 billion, up 3.6% in real terms from the year-earlier month. (EUR1=RON4.4347)