EghtesadOnline: Bank Saderat Iran doled out loans worth 232 trillion rials ($6.13 billion) to 212,000 applicants in industries, mining and agriculture sectors in the previous year that ended March 20, 2017, the bank’s CEO said.

EghtesadOnline: As the Iranian banking system continues to grapple with the growing problem of sour loans, the governor of the Central Bank of Iran has urged lenders to direct the bulk of their efforts toward recovering their non-performing loans.

EghtesadOnline: Since February 2017 when the Cabinet first approved that penalties for non-performing loans will be waived for loans up to 1 billion rials ($28,178), about 8 trillion rials ($213 million) of fines have been waived and the banking system has recovered more than 1.6 trillion rials ($426 million) in bed debt, said the chairman of Majlis Planning and Budget Commission.