Continued Backing for Production, Employment

EghtesadOnline: The Iranian banking system will continue to support production and employment in the current fiscal year as it did last year, says the chief executive of Bank Melli Iran.

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27 May 2017

”Even though it had been predicted that 7,500 production units would receive credit from the banks during the previous year, the number actually reached 25,000,” Mohammad Reza Hossein-Zadeh was also quoted as saying by the official website of BMI. From a total of 170 trillion rials ($4.5 billion) in loans allocated to the small- and medium-sized enterprises last year in line with resuscitating them, “more than 30 trillion rials ($800 million)” were provided by Bank Melli Iran, according to Financial Tribune. According to Hossein-Zadeh, BMI and the banking network in general will focus on “unfinished production units and seeing them to completion”.