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		<title>Albanian Association of Banks: Lending for investment purposes increased by 1.3%</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vjollca Shehu]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2015 13:30:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Albanian Association of Banks published on Friday a report on the loan amount that second tier banks have given to businesses for investments purposes. Lending for investment purposes has increased by 1.3%, on January of this year, analyzed in annual terms. Lending for investment purposes reached the value of 201 billion ALL on January [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Lending for businesses increased by 2.5% on January 2015, compared to 2014</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vjollca Shehu]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2015 14:39:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Lending for businesses during January of this year reached the amount of 401 billion ALL, about 2.5% more than in the same period of a year before. The official data published by the Bank of Albania, announced the increase of lending in the trade sector, since lending increased by 3.8% on January 2015, compared to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Individuals and businesses are lending in ALL, says Bank of Albania&#8217;s report</title>
		<link>https://invest-in-albania.org/individuals-businesses-lending-says-bank-albanias-report/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vjollca Shehu]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2015 13:47:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[On a report published on February 20th, Bank of Albania issued data on trend of lending in bank system in country, referred to lending based in certain currencies. Although lending in ALL is about 30% more expensive than taking a loan in euros, the lending activity is heading towards Albanian Lek, say experts. Interest rates [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Bank of Albania lowers its interest rate for loans to 2.00%</title>
		<link>https://invest-in-albania.org/bank-albania-decreases-interest-rate-loans-2-00/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vjollca Shehu]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2015 15:07:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Bank of Albania’s Council of Ministers made public their latest decision on decreasing BoA’s interest rate on loans to 2.00%, in order to lower funds’ costs since this is expected to affect in the cut of costs for lenders. Economy experts say this is a smart move of BoA, because it will stimulate country’s economic growth [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Lending to businesses reached the amount of 200 bl ALL during 2014</title>
		<link>https://invest-in-albania.org/lending-businesses-reached-amount-200-bl-2014/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vjollca Shehu]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2015 16:18:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Bank of Albania analyses have shown that lately the bank system in country is giving positive signals in easing the lending standards and in improving loan offers.  “The total amount of lending to businesses during January-November period reached 200 billion ALL and has increased in the most of economy sectors,” declared Bank of Albania on [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Lending in ALL currency increased due to BoA fiscal policies</title>
		<link>https://invest-in-albania.org/lending-currency-increased-due-boa-fiscal-policies/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vjollca Shehu]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2015 18:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Bank of Albania announced lately that lending in ALL increased by 10% in annual basis during 2014, about 20 billion ALL more compared to 2013. In its report on economic indicators, Bank of Albania analyses the performance of lending in report with ALL currency. As written in the report, foreign currency loans were 59.4% of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Bank of Albania: Lending from banks increased in 2014</title>
		<link>https://invest-in-albania.org/bank-albania-lending-banks-increased-2014/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vjollca Shehu]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2015 16:55:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Bank of Albania announced that lending to economy marked an increase during November, 2014, which is estimated at 561 bn lek or nearly 4 bn lek more than October, 2014. According to Bank of Albania, increase in lending on year-to-year basis is estimated at nearly 3.8%, which is the highest figure since a year [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Bank of Albania takes new measures to increase lending</title>
		<link>https://invest-in-albania.org/bank-albania-takes-new-measures-increase-lending/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vjollca Shehu]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2014 10:59:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In the framework of increasing lending by second tier banks, Bank of Albania has extended the time of implementation for several measures taken during 2014. The main regulatory institution of the country’s economy announced the latest changes made in the regulatory, “For the report of capital sufficiency”, following the package of measures taken to increase second [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Second tier banks should increase lending</title>
		<link>https://invest-in-albania.org/second-tier-banks-increase-lending/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vjollca Shehu]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2014 09:36:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The increase of outstanding loans has pulled back second tier banks from giving loans to the businesses or individuals. This has been noticed in recent years after the economic crisis of 2008 which increased the unpaid loans by businesses/individuals. Elvin Meka, economy expert in Albania says the role of second-tier banks is lending and the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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