Regional outstanding credit: documentation of statistics

Lending includes overdrafts (on current accounts), bills of exchange, promissory notes and other loans.

Loans to the public include the outstanding amount of credit other than bonds, marketable debt instruments, loans to financial institutions, insurance corporations, central government and social security funds, and loans to foreign borrowers.

The following items are reported in the statistics on regional outstanding credit: outstanding credit, including overdrafts (on current accounts), bills of exchange, promissory notes, other loans, loans intermediated from government funds, as well as lending in other currencies.