Compared with August, overdue loan payments increased by 1.5%, the data showed.
Overdue loans as share of total debt fell to 7.45% at the end of September, from a record high of 7.51% a month earlier.
The number of Romanian corporate and household debtors reached 968,609 million in September, of which 239,794 had past due payments.
Total loans and commitments assumed by Romanian lenders stood at RON294.5 billion, up 10.3% from September 2010. (EUR1=RON4.354)