Bashkiria outranked Moscow on microloans volume

UFA, 26 September 2017. /Bashinform News Agency, Olga Murtazina/. Bashkiria outranked Moscow and the Moscow region in terms of loans volume in microfinance organizations. According to the National Bureau of Credit Histories, residents of the republic with a population of 4 million people borrowed 7.7 billion rubles from micro lenders as of July 1, 2017. This is more than the 12-million Moscow (6.7 billion) and 7-million Moscow region (5.4 billion) took out. In the second quarter, residents of Bashkiria borrowed an average of 7.7 thousand rubles – by 12% more than in the first quarter.