The Iranian banking system has paid 12.41 quadrillion rials (over $295.49 billion) of facilities to domestic economic sectors in the first six months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21-September 22), local reports have said.
This amount is 57.9 percent higher from the amount in the same period from the previous year, said the local reports.
According to the data provided by the Central Bank of Iran, working capital loans paid to different economic sectors in the mentioned six months were above 8.376 quadrillion rials (about $199.4 billion), accounting for 67.5 percent of the total provided facilities.
During the same period, the country’s mining and industry sector received over 2.947 quadrillion rials (about $70.17 billion) in the form of working capital loans, accounting for 35.2 percent of the total such facilities.
In September, the CBI had announced that over 9 quadrillion rials (over $214.47 billion) of facilities were paid to various economic sectors in the first five months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21-August 22), registering a 51.3-percent rise from the same period in the previous year.
According to CBI, the country’s banking system offered 18.989 quadrillion rials (about $452.1 billion) facilities to domestic economic sectors in the previous Iranian calendar year of 1399 (ended on March 20), 94.8-percent more than the figure for its preceding year.