Since the beginning of 2024, 7,713 entrepreneurs have received loans under the Affordable Loans at 5-7-9% program totaling UAH 30 billion. Processing companies accounted for one in five loans.
Last week, entrepreneurs received 754 such loans worth UAH 2.3 billion. Since the start of the program (February 2020), 86,700 loans worth UAH 296.5 billion have been issued.
Since the beginning of 2024, entrepreneurs have taken out the largest number of preferrential loans to replenish working capital - UAH 12 billion, UAH 6 billion of loans were issued by banks to businesses operating in the high military risk zone, UAH 5.9 billion - to processing enterprises, and UAH 4.9 billion - to implement investment projects.
The most frequently lent companies under the program are those operating in the following sectors:
- agriculture (48%);
- wholesale and retail trade (25%);
- processing industry (17%).
Among the regions, Lviv, Dnipropetrovsk, Odesa, Kyiv, Kharkiv, Vinnytsia, Poltava, as well as Kyiv city are the leaders in terms of loan agreements.
As of today, 45 banks participate in the program, with Privatbank (39,600), Oschadbank (13,500), and Raiffeisen Bank Aval (5,400) issuing the largest number of loans since the program's launch.