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Credit to businesses and households in 2025: growth, composition and currency (FSR Dec. 2025)

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Local and multilateral financing16-financiamiento.md
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According to Banguat's Financial Stability Report (data to December 2025), total credit to businesses and households grew 7.9% year on year, down from 11.4% in December 2024, split between businesses (52.8%) and households (47.2%). Credit to businesses grew 8.9% (9.1% a year earlier); within it the corporate segment, 88.6% of business lending, grew 7.2% (8.7% in 2024), with foreign-currency credit up 8.2% and local-currency credit slowing to 6.3%; foreign currency is now 49.2% of credit to that segment. Productive credit (individuals and small units) recovered from a low of −17.2% in February 2025 to +12.4% in December. Banguat reads the whole as contained risk: portfolio quality held or improved against 2024 and provisions are ample; the Economic Activity Confidence Index closed 2025 at 66.4 points and the IMAE grew 4.7% year on year in December.

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Total credit to businesses and householdsBanguat, IEF dic-2025 (sección IV)
+7.9% y/y (11.4% in Dec-2024)Dec-2025
CompositionBanguat, IEF dic-2025
businesses 52.8%, households 47.2%Dec-2025
Credit to businessesBanguat, IEF dic-2025
+8.9% (9.1% in Dec-2024); corporate segment +7.2%, 49.2% in foreign currencyDec-2025
Productive creditBanguat, IEF dic-2025 (gráfica IV.4)
from −17.2% (Feb-2025) to +12.4% (Dec-2025)2025

Caveat

Growth rates as reported by Banguat from Superintendencia de Bancos data; the report's 'total credit' is credit to businesses and households, not the total bank credit to the private sector of the monthly series.

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