Since the beginning of 2024, 10,000 entrepreneurs have received loans under the Affordable Loans programme totalling UAH 39.2 billion. 22% of these loans were issued by banks to enterprises operating in a high combat risk zone.

Last week, entrepreneurs received 434 affordable loans worth UAH 1.4 billion. Since the launch of the programme in February 2020, 89,000 loans worth UAH 306 billion have been disbursed.

Since the beginning of 2024, entrepreneurs have taken out the most affordable loans to replenish working capital – UAH 15 billion, UAH 8.6 billion of loans were issued by banks to businesses operating in the high combat risk zone, UAH 8.2 billion to processing enterprises, and UAH 6.3 billion to implement investment projects.

The most frequently lent companies under the programme are those operating in the following sectors:

• agriculture (47%);
• wholesale and retail trade (25%);
• processing industry (18%).

Among the regions, the leaders in terms of the amount of loan agreements concluded are Lviv, Dnipropetrovsk, Odesa, Kyiv, Kharkiv, Vinnytsia, Poltava regions and the city of Kyiv.

As of today, 45 banks participate in the programme, with Privatbank (40,800), Oschadbank (13,700) and Raiffeisen Bank Aval (5,400) disbursing the largest number of loans since the programme’s launch.