Bulgaria: Lending Growth Close to Freezing Point

Professional ServicesBanks ♦ Published: December 14, 2012; 20:37 ♦ (Vindobona)

The increase in deposits also decelerates. The annual rate of growth of money supply (measured by means of the M3 aggregate) slowed down in October to 8.6% (it was 8.8% in the previous two months), Raiffeisen Research says.

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The largest contribution to this increase was made by the deposits with agreed maturity up to 2 years (3.0 p. p.) which grew by 5.4% in the last 12 months, as well as the overnight deposits (2.8 p. p.) which had an annual increase of 12.3%. The deposits redeemable at notice up to 3 months and the money outside banks contributed respectively by 1.5 and 1.2 p. p., while…