Central banker sees Russia’s lending growing 7–9% in 2016

MOSCOW, May 17 (PRIME) -- Russia’s corporate and retail lending is projected to grow 7–9% in 2016 and there are no grounds so far to revise the forecast, the central bank’s Deputy Chairman Mikhail Sukhov told reporters on Tuesday.

“We have not changed the forecasts, we were saying that it will be I guess around 7–9%, this is totally with lending to individuals,” he said.

“I do not think that it is time now to change the forecast,” he said.

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