17:37 - 17.07.2023

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July 17, Fineko/abc.az. Over Jan-Jun 2023, Bank Respublika OJSC topped the rating of agent banks of the Entrepreneurship Development Fund in terms of the volume of concessional loans given to businesses.

ABC.AZ was informed at the EDF that Bank Respublika gave preferential loans for totally AZN 14.2 million to entrepreneurs from the EDF finances for 6 months of 2023.

PASHA Bank (AZN 12.7 million) is in 2nd place in terms of business lending and RabitaBank (AZN 6 million) - in 3rd place.

AccessBank (AZN 5.4 million) and Expressbank (AZN 4.3 million) also entered the Top 5 in terms of lending from EDF finances.

Bank Respublika led the list of the EDF agent banks in terms of preferential business lending by the results of 2021-2022. In 2021, the bank gave preferential loans for AZN 20.3 million from the EDF finances, in 2022 - for AZN 28.3 million.