{"id":529773,"date":"2026-03-30T15:12:56","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T12:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=529773"},"modified":"2026-03-30T16:01:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T13:01:49","slug":"banks-reduce-lending-to-individuals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/banks-reduce-lending-to-individuals","title":{"rendered":"Banks Reduce Lending To Individuals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>In February, banks issued loans to individuals worth 1.23 billion roubles, 150 million more than in January. Compared with February last year, the volume of lending fell by 9.1%. These figures were published by the National Bank of Belarus.<\/p>\n<p>For the first two months of the year, lending to individuals declined by 19.5% to 2.3 billion roubles.<\/p>\n<p>Consumer lending in January-February fell by 22.4% to 1.86 billion roubles. Lending for real estate purchases dropped by 13.9% to 457.5 million roubles.<\/p>\n<p>Household debt on loans increased by 141.4 million roubles in February and stood at 29.92 billion roubles as of March 1. Compared with a year earlier, household loan debt increased by 11.8%.<\/p>\n<p>Debt on consumer loans rose by 12.7% to 11.78 billion roubles, while debt on real estate loans increased by 11.2% to 18.11 billion roubles.<\/p>\n<p>As of March 1, individuals had overdue loans worth 51.8 million roubles, 1.1 million more than on February 1. Compared with a year earlier, the volume of overdue debt increased by 7.6 million roubles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In February, banks issued loans to individuals worth 1.23 billion roubles, 150 million more than in January. Compared with February last year, the volume of lending fell by 9.1%. These figures were published by the National Bank of Belarus. For the first two months of the year, lending to individuals declined by 19.5% to 2.3 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/69ca744137c80.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Banks Reduce Lending To Individuals"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-529773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-business"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}