This indicates that access to finance, which has long been reported by businesses as one of the main barriers to their business development, is now undergoing continuous improvement. This can be noticed by the growth in lending to the sectors of the economy which in previous periods had a more limited access to banking financing.
According to the latest data of October 2018, the loans granted by the banking sector to businesses are in the amount of EUR 1.7 billion which, compared with the same period of five years ago, has increased by 45 per cent.