At the end of October, people in Serbia owed 1,495.36 billion dinars to banks for loans of which 698.02 billion were cash loans, followed by housing and renovation loans of 659.93 billion dinars and agricultural loans of 89.95 billion dinars, the Association of Serbian Banks reports.
Regarding latency in payment of these loans, 2.8 percent of total bank loans are not settled on time, while 2.5 percent of housing loans are not paid on time.
The number of current accounts and their users increased over the previous year by 5.1 percent and stood at 8,916,591 on October 31 compared to 8,480,083 a year earlier, while the number of current account users increased from 5,688,867 in October 2022 to 5,909,783 in October this year.
The number of credit cards decreased from October last year to April this year from 1,206,193 to 1,167,898.
(Nova.rs, 05.10.2023)