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The total value of outstanding loans in lei of the population and companies accounted for 4.57 billion lei in December 2019, down 3.2 per cent against the amount reported a month before, while outstanding loans in foreign currency went down 4 per cent to 2 billion lei (equivalent), according to data released by the National Bank of Romania (BNR).
Loans in foreign currency totalled approximately 88.575 billion lei in December 2019 (by 1.8 per cent less than in November 2019), of which 50.575 billion loans are lei contracted by economic operators and 34.474 billion lei are loans contracted by the population.
Bucharesters had 1.781 billion lei in outstanding loans in end-December and 900 million lei (equivalent) in loans in foreign currency.
The total value of the loans granted in lei in the Capital City stood at 64.32 billion lei and the total value of loans in foreign currency stood at 44.031 billion lei.
