{"id":168390,"date":"2018-06-30T07:05:26","date_gmt":"2018-06-30T11:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=168390"},"modified":"2025-03-07T20:52:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T01:52:45","slug":"bank-lending-growth-sustained-in-may-espenilla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/06\/30\/bank-lending-growth-sustained-in-may-espenilla\/","title":{"rendered":"Bank lending growth sustained in May: Espenilla"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_127595\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-127595\" style=\"width: 514px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/BSP_Governor_Nestor_Espenilla_Jr-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-127595\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/BSP_Governor_Nestor_Espenilla_Jr-1.jpg\" alt=\"Preliminary data show that outstanding loans of commercial banks, net of reverse repurchase (RRP) placements with the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), grew at a slightly lower rate of 19.4 percent in May from 19.9 percent in April, BSP Governor Nestor Espenilla, Jr. said in a statement Friday. (Photo By Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, CC BY-SA 4.0)\" width=\"514\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/BSP_Governor_Nestor_Espenilla_Jr-1.jpg 514w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/BSP_Governor_Nestor_Espenilla_Jr-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/BSP_Governor_Nestor_Espenilla_Jr-1-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 514px) 100vw, 514px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-127595\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Preliminary data show that outstanding loans of commercial banks, net of reverse repurchase (RRP) placements with the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), grew at a slightly lower rate of 19.4 percent in May from 19.9 percent in April, BSP Governor Nestor Espenilla, Jr. said in a statement Friday. (<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=61344400\">Photo By Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, CC BY-SA 4.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Preliminary data show that outstanding loans of commercial banks, net of reverse repurchase (RRP) placements with the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), grew at a slightly lower rate of 19.4 percent in May from 19.9 percent in April, BSP Governor Nestor Espenilla, Jr. said in a statement Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, the growth in bank lending inclusive of RRPs slowed down to 17.7 percent in May from 19.9 percent in the previous month.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy cymbalta online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.auriculotherapy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/cymbalta.html\">https:\/\/www.auriculotherapy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/cymbalta.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p> On a month-on-month seasonally-adjusted basis, commercial bank loans net of RRPs and loans inclusive of RRPs both increased by 1.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy tetracycline online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.auriculotherapy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/tetracycline.html\">https:\/\/www.auriculotherapy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/tetracycline.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p>2 percent.<\/p>\n<p>BSP loans for production activities &#8212; which comprised 88.5 percent of banks&#8217; aggregate loan portfolio, net of RRP &#8212; grew by 19.3 percent in May from 19.6 percent in the previous month.<\/p>\n<p>The growth in production loans was driven primarily by increased lending to the following sectors: wholesale and retail trade, repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles (23.4 percent); real estate activities (5.7 percent); financial and insurance activities (31.3 percent); manufacturing (17.7 percent); and electricity, gas, steam and air-conditioning supply (11.6 percent).<\/p>\n<p>Bank lending to other sectors also increased during the month except in agriculture, forestry and fishing (-8.3 percent), and administrative and support services activities (49.2 percent).<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the growth of loans for household consumption slowed down to 18.4 percent in May from 19.0 percent in April.<\/p>\n<p>The slower increase in motor vehicle loans and salary-based general purpose consumption loans as well as the contraction in other types of household loans offset the faster expansion in credit card loans in May.<\/p>\n<p>The BSP will continue to ensure that the expansion in domestic credit and liquidity proceeds in line with overall economic growth while remaining consistent with the BSP&#8217;s price and financial stability objectives.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy priligy online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.auriculotherapy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/priligy.html\">https:\/\/www.auriculotherapy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/priligy.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Preliminary data show that outstanding loans of commercial banks, net of reverse repurchase (RRP) placements with the Bangko Sentral &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":127595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[1216,52363,52362,51597],"class_list":["post-168390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-bangko-sentral-ng-pilipinas","tag-bsp-governor-nestor-espenilla-jr","tag-commercial-banks","tag-loans","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287657,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168390\/revisions\/287657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}