BNR: Overdue loans in lei down 2.3pct in October; loans in foreign currencies slightly up, by 0.1pct percent

The overall value of overdue loans in lei of households and companies, recorded in October 2017, stands at 5.513 billion lei, declining by 2.3 percent compared to the amount reported in September, and the overdue loans in foreign currencies slightly went up by 0.11 percent to 6.909 billion lei (equivalent), according to a report of the National Bank of Romania (BNR). 

The overall loans in lei amounted to 143.93 billion lei in October (a value by 0.6 percent over the value of the previous month), out of which 61.76 billion lei were sums contracted by economic operators and 78.29 billion lei were household loans. 

The loans in foreign currencies stood at 92.4 billion equivalent lei in October 2017 (less by 1.02 percent than in September), out of which loans worth 46.99 billion lei were made by economic operators and 42.28 billion lei by households. 

People residing in Bucharest had, at the end of October overdue loans in lei worth 1.721 billion lei and in foreign currencies worth 2.8 billion lei (equivalent). 

The overall loans taken in Bucharest stood at 50.636 billion lei and the ones in foreign currencies stood at 44.284 billion lei.

AGERPRES.