HUF 700 Billion Business Credit Scheme Launching in Hungary

  • 24 Jan 2023 7:06 AM
  • Hungary Matters
HUF 700 Billion Business Credit Scheme Launching in Hungary
Hungary’s government will launch a 700 billion forint (EUR 1.8bn) subsidised credit scheme for businesses from February, the ministry of economic development said.

Credit in the Baross Gábor Reindustrialisation Programme will be available to businesses, regardless of size, for investment or working capital loans.

Rates for the credit will be capped at 6% for forint loans and 3.5% for euro loans, but will be even lower for investments that boost energy efficiency.

The ministry noted that commercial lending rates for businesses now stand over 20%.

The ministry said the scheme will give businesses a chance to refinance a “large volume” of maturing 2.5% credit taken out in the framework of the Funding for Growth Scheme of the National Bank of Hungary (NBH).

The programme will be funded by Magyar Eximbank.

The government is pumping around 3,000 billion forints in business credit into the economy this year in the framework of Magyar Eximbank, Hungarian Development Bank (MFB) and Széchenyi Card programmes, the ministry said.

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