The amount of new corporate loans in lei was even higher by 5.4% than in June 2019, according to Romania’s central bank statistics.
June saw a rebound in corporate lending comparable to 2019, following a 29% and 19% drop in April and May. Consumer lending, too, rebounded in June, but was still lower than in June 2019.
Corporate lending plunged in April, when new loans for companies were 29.5% lower than in April 2019, RON1.96 billion. New corporate loans went down again in May, reaching RON1.65 billion or 19.5% lower than in May 2019.
New corporate loans in lei stood at RON13 billion in the first half, an increase of 4.2% over the year-ago period.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)