EghtesadOnline: Banks and credit institutions lent 137.6 trillion rials ($860 million) to 1,108 knowledge-based companies in the last fiscal year that ended on March 19.

EghtesadOnline: The government can withdraw €3.4 billion from the National Development Fund of Iran in the next fiscal year (starts March 2020), to finance development projects.

EghtesadOnline: Banks have significantly cut borrowing from the Central Bank of Iran as the numbers declined more than 40% compared to the same period last year, the CBI governor said.