The loan portfolio of Ukrainian banks in June 2021 grew by 1%, to UAH 1.091 trillion, while the volume of non-performing loans (NPL) decreased by 0.7%, to UAH 405.522 billion, according to reports on the website National Bank of Ukraine (NBU).
According to the report, the share of non-performing loans in the banking system in June fell to 37.18% from 37.85% in May.
The National Bank indicated that over the month the portfolio of loans in the corporate sector decreased by 0.7%, to UAH 809.363 billion, while the portfolio of loans to individuals increased by 2.1%, to UAH 229.139 billion.
At the same time, the volume of interbank loans increased by 1.4%, to UAH 40.93 billion, and the volume of loans issued to state and local authorities increased by 3.7%, to UAH 11.212 billion.
According to the National Bank, in June, the share of NPL in the portfolio of loans provided to the corporate sector decreased by 0.5 percentage points (to 43.66%), loans to the population – by 1 percentage point (to 22.4%), interbank loans – by 0.5 percentage points (to 1.92%), and loans to state authorities remained at the level of 0%.
The central bank’s report indicates that the loan portfolio of state-owned banks (excluding PrivatBank) in June 2021 increased by 0.2%, to UAH 292.798 billion (the NPL volume in it decreased by 0.5%, to UAH 118.09 billion), while the loan portfolio of PrivatBank grew by 0.4%, to UAH 248.7 million (NPL decreased by 0.2%, to UAH 177.4 billion).
In addition, over the month, the loan portfolio of banks with foreign capital increased by 1.5% (to UAH 361.09 billion), with private – by 2.6% (to UAH 188.06 billion), while the volume of NPL in them decreased accordingly by 0.8% (to UAH 87.55 billion) and by 1.2% (to UAH 22.509 billion).
