Despite a 19% decrease in the granting of new operations, the total credit stock in the country remained stable in January, totaling R$ 4.670 trillion. The value is equivalent to 53.3% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
The numbers are from the Credit Monetary Note, released this Thursday (24) by the Central Bank (BC).
For individuals, the balance of credit operations increased slightly and 1%. As for companies, the stock retreated by 1.5%.
In the first month of the year, total credit granted was BRL 399.9 billion, of which BRL 216.9 billion in loans to families and BRL 183 billion in concessions to companies.
At 2.5% of the total balance of operations, delinquency increased by 0.2 percentage point compared to December 2021.
In free resources, the credit stock reached R$ 2.782 trillion. Still in this segment, the granting of credit totaled R$ 367 billion in January.
Credit with earmarked resources, which is subsidized by governments, totaled R$ 1.887 trillion. The granting of credit totaled R$ 32.8 billion.
Source: CNN Brasil
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