BAKU, Azerbaijan, August 19. Iranian banks have increased their lending to the trade sector during the first four months of the current Iranian year (from March 21 through July 22, 2025) by 48.6 percent compared to the same period last year (from March 20 through July 21, 2024).
Data obtained by Trend from the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) indicates that the total volume of trade sector loans reached 2.19 quadrillion rials (about $3.86 billion) compared with the same period last year (1.47 quadrillion rials (about $2.6 billion)).
The data shows that about 1.4 quadrillion rials (about $3.41 billion) of this amount was provided as working capital for the trade sector. Loans to support business creation and related opportunities amounted to 153 trillion rials (about $270 million), while loans for enterprise development reached 93.3 trillion rials (about $164 million).
The aggregate of self-employment financing reached approximately
2.78 trillion rials (circa $4.9 million), while the allocation for
personal consumption loans, encompassing residential acquisitions
and renovations, comprised 2.33 trillion rials (around $4.1
million), alongside 226 billion rials (nearly $398,000) and 119
billion rials (approximately $209,000), respectively.
In total, Iranian banking entities and financial institutions
disbursed credit totaling 17.7 quadrillion rials (approximately
$30.4 billion) across diverse sectors during the initial
quadrimester of the fiscal year, reflecting a robust 33.5 percent
uptick relative to the corresponding timeframe of the preceding
year.
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