The volume of new consumer loans in lei was 2.5 times higher than in April and 1.5 times higher than in May.
The volume of the new consumer loans in lei, however, was 27.4% lower in June than in the year-ago period, Romania’s central bank statistics show.
March, when the lockdown was put in place, saw a slowdown of consumer lending, but the volume remained at more than RON1.7 billion. New leu retail loans fell 26.4% in March compared with February 2020, and by 14.6% compared with March 2019.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)