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At the end of April 22, about 6.2 million debtors, including individuals and companies, have been sheltered with measures such as grace periods and extensions in the payment of its credits, as just revealed by the Financial Superintendence.
The entity reported that the amount of the debts covered by these measures, more than 7.73 million of current obligations, amounts, for that same date, to more than 137.5 billion pesos. Until last February, the balance of the Colombian financial system portfolio was around 510 trillion pesos.
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While said reliefs cover 2.6 million credit card users, 2.5 million consumer credit debtors and some 500,000 mortgage loans, with obligations totaling more than 89.4 billion, in the business sector, the same aid has been for 379,464 microenterprises, 103,254 small and medium-sized companies and 21,372 large companies.
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The debts covered by the reliefs in the real sector of the economy up to that date totaled just over 48 trillion pesos in total. Of this amount, the debts of the benefited microenterprises total 2.23 trillion, while those of small and medium-sized companies exceed 13.7 trillion pesos, sectors considered the most affected by the current economic and social emergency situation.
According to the surveillance and control entity, regarding the guarantee lines of the National Guarantee Fund (FNG) as of April 22, of a total quota of 10 billion pesos, 3.94 billion associated pesos have been reserved to be disbursed to 46,794 credits in the different lines.
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For SMEs, with 80 percent FNG support, there are 2.4 billion; for micro-companies, with 80 and 70 percent support, 450,000 and 150,000 million, respectively; for payroll payments in micros and SMEs with a 90 percent guarantee from the FNG, there are 5 and 1 billion, respectively, while for independent workers there is another trillion pesos, backed up to 80 percent by said fund.
The Superfinancial Company also reported that on April 22 alone, nearly 5.9 million transactions worth 12.8 trillion pesos were carried out in the financial system. So far, the highest figure mobilized in a single day by the financial sector under this concept was 17.4 billion on April 14.
Internet and mobile telephony are the channels most used by people to mobilize their resources in these days of quarantine, because only last April 22 they traded for these 8.3 trillion pesos out of the 12.8 trillion that circulated throughout the system, the Superfinancial indicated.
By: Economy and Business
