Current Condition Of Commercial Banks Loan Portfolio

The FINANCIAL -- The volume of lending by commercial banks (including loans to non-residents) in December 2018 increased by 480.3 million GEL or by 1.8 percent compared to the previous month (exchange rate effect excluded volume of lending increased by 2.1 percent) and constituted 26.6 billion GEL by January 1, 2019, National Bank of Georgia notes.