Banks issued UAH 1.6 billion of affordable loans to entrepreneurs over the past week. Since the beginning of the Affordable Loans 5-7-9 Program, businesses have received almost 46 thousand loans for a total amount of UAH 133.1 billion.

Entrepreneurs took anti-crisis loans the most – UAH 59.4 billion, and UAH 27.8 billion to refinance previously received loans. In addition, UAH 14.8 billion were issued for anti-war purposes, UAH 10.7 billion, for investment purposes.  Agricultural companies received UAH 19.7 billion in loans to support their activities; trading companies took UAH 666.8 million in loans to finance working capital.

Enterprises operating in the field of agriculture (52%), trade and production (23%), industrial processing (14%) are most often credited under the program. Among the regions, Lviv, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Odesa, Kyiv, Vinnytsia oblasts and the city of Kyiv are the leaders in terms of the amounts of loan agreements concluded.

Today, 42 banks participate in the program, while the largest number of loans were issued by PrivatBank (19.2 thousand), Oschadbank (6.2 thousand) and Raiffeisen Bank Aval (4.1 thousand).

We remind you that the Affordable Loans 5-7-9% Program allows you to attract up to UAH 60 million at 0% for the period of wartime +1 month. Loans in the amount of up to UAH 1 billion at 5% annual are available for retail trade chains, which enables them to pay suppliers on time and replenish their financial balance.