Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Credit Bureau Says Loans to Top $14B by 2020


3 September 2014

By the year 2020, more than 1.5 million Cambodians will open new credit accounts, causing the amount of unpaid loans to surpass $14 billion.

The CBC predicts the number of customers demanding credit from both microfinance institutions (MFIs) and banks to increase from roughly 1.8 million in 2014 to 3.3 million in 2020. The number of customers opening credit accounts with MFIs is expected to rise from about 1.4 million this year to 2.7 million in 2020. The number of customers opening credit accounts with banks is set to increase from 371,966 in 2014 to 638,317 in 2020. The CBC forecasts the total number of credit accounts, meanwhile, to rise from about 2.2 million in 2014 to 4 million in 2020.

The predicted dramatic increases in demand for credit will more than double the total outstanding balance of loans between 2014 and 2020, from $6.4 billion to $14.7 billion. The average loan size is also expected to increase between 2014 and 2020: from $1,182 to $1,502 for MFIs and from $12,797 to $16,732 for banks.

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