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Two individuals have been detained in Varna's "Asparuhovo" district as part of a police operation targeting vote-buying and domestic crime, according to a report by BNT. Pawnshops, payday loan businesses, and other locations suspected of involvement in vote trading are under investigation.

The cash loans in Turkey increased 14 percent in the first quarter hitting as high as 3.02 trillion Turkish Liras ($441 billion), according to the Banks Association of Turkey (TBB) on May 18.

Banks in Romania foresee that lending conditions will be left unchanged over the next quarter - Q3 2019 - for both types of loans to households, mortgage and consumer loans. As for non-financial corporations, banks anticipate a moderate tightening of credit standards, regardless of the company size, according to a lending survey conducted by the National Bank of Romania (BNR).

Lending standards tightened significantly in Q1 2019 for both property purchase loans and consumer loans, reveals a survey conducted by the National Bank of Romania (BNR) on lending to non-financial companies and to the population. According to the survey, the banks kept their lending standards for non-financial companies unchanged as compared to the previous quarter.

BELGRADE - The total credit debt of legal entities dropped by two percent compared to 2013, while the debt of citizens increased by around nine percent, the Association of Serbian Banks stated on Monday.

The debt per capita arising from loans and leasing services increased from EUR 834 in 2013 to EUR 861 in 2014.

BELGRADE - The degree of dinarisation has gone up by 1.5 percentage points in the first half o 2014, which is mostly thanks to subsidised dinar loans from banks to companies, the National Bank of Serbia said on Wednesday.

Accorind to a six-month report on monetary policy from the NBS, the dinarisation in late 2013 was 26.8 percent and in late June it was 28.3 percent.

Turkish lender İşbank posted a second-quarter net profit of 829.4 million Turkish Liras ($381.35 million), less than Reuters’ forecast of 897 million liras, the company said in a filing to the stock exchange late Aug. 8. The bank’s profits fell by 5.5 percent from 877.5 million liras in the second quarter of 2013.