Small and medium-sized businesses in the Moscow Region actively use the program of preferential lending under new conditions, implemented by the Bank of Russia jointly with JSC "Corporation "SME".

According to the Main Directorate of the Bank of Russia for the Central Federal District, during the validity of the updated terms of the program from July 18th of 2022 to January 31st of  2023 in the Moscow rRegion, small and medium-sized businesses received loans totaling 1.8 billion rubles for replenishment of working capital and restructuring from banks.

Entrepreneurs from the Moscow Region received preferential loans for investment purposes in the amount of 10.4 billion rubles.

-  Preferential lending is in demand by small and medium-sized businesses. Thus, companies aimed at developing their activities receive funds for restructuring production processes, increasing capacities and import substitution projects. Thanks to this, new jobs and production chains are emerging," said Vladimir Golovnev, the Commissioner for the Protection of the Rights of Entrepreneurs in the Moscow Region.