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Bank loans in ‘Fresh’
double to $553 million

Lending restricted to bank clients

Bank loans in ‘fresh dollar’ almost doubled from $282 million in October 2023 to $553 million in June 2025, according to the Central Bank’s (BDL) Macroeconomic Review. Most of them are small personal loans.

BDL said that banks require borrowers to have a steady income in US dollar within the same financial institution, effectively excluding large segments of the population and many businesses from access to credit. Even for eligible borrowers, interest rates remained extremely high, reflecting elevated risk and the banks’ weakened balanc...more


	FINANCE


	Fiscal surplus down from $364 million to $36 million
	$3.9 billion in 2024 revenues exceed forecast


	680,000 e-wallets issued by 15 institutions
	Monthly transactions worth around $300 million


	Eurobonds nearing $24 setting new record high
	Bondholders JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley expect price to keep going up

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