{"id":12601,"date":"2025-11-13T16:04:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T11:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frank.uz\/bez-kategorii\/sme-lending-will-grow-to-140-trillion-tenge-in-2026\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T16:04:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T11:04:24","slug":"sme-lending-will-grow-to-140-trillion-tenge-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frank.uz\/en\/news-en\/sme-lending-will-grow-to-140-trillion-tenge-in-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"SME lending will grow to 140 trillion tenge in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Why is this important<\/h3>\n<p>SME loans of 140 trillion \u2014 20% growth stimulates small businesses, creates jobs, and reduces unemployment. Focusing on the agricultural sector and the food industry will reduce food prices. <\/p>\n<h3>What happened<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>SME loans by 2026: 140 trillion (2025: 116 trillion);<\/li>\n<li>Total volume in 2026: 450 trillion;<\/li>\n<li>Support for 100 thousand business initiatives;<\/li>\n<li>Focus: agricultural sector, food industry, services.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Lending to SMEs<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>2025:<\/strong> 116 trillion (+1.4 times compared to 2023).<\/li>\n<li><strong>2026:<\/strong> 140 trillion (+20%) \u2014 stimulating small businesses, creating jobs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Total loan amount<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>2026:<\/strong> 450 trillion \u2014 loans from commercial banks to the economy (business, population, state projects).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Financing focus<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Agrarian sector: <\/strong>loans to farmers, processors \u2014 growth in production, price reduction.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Food industry:<\/strong> production localization \u2014 import substitution, price stabilization.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Services:<\/strong> tourism, HoReCa, IT \u2014 job creation, economic growth.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Support for citizens<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>2025: <\/strong>89 thousand business initiatives worth 1.1 trillion through work in mahallas.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Target 2025: <\/strong>100 thousand.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2026:<\/strong> 100 thousand new projects \u2014 involving the population in entrepreneurship, poverty reduction.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Banking policy objectives<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Stable financial environment:<\/strong> for the population, businesses.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Trust in banks:<\/strong> strengthening through transparency, deposit protection.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Healthy competition:<\/strong> between banks \u2014 reduction of rates, improvement of service.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Context<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>SME loans are growing:<\/strong> from 116 trillion to 140 trillion \u2014 the government is placing a strong emphasis on small businesses as a driver of growth and employment.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Inflation is decreasing:<\/strong> from 10.2% to 7.8% due to the strict policy of the Central Bank (rate 14%), saturation of the market, price control.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The 5% target for 2027<\/strong> is ambitious, requiring price control, the stability of the soum, and production growth.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Focus on the agricultural sector, food industry:<\/strong> reducing food prices is a key task for the population (products account for 40-50% of the consumer basket).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Support for 100 thousand citizens:<\/strong> microloans through mahallas \u2014 involvement in entrepreneurship, poverty reduction.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Banks will expand financing for the agricultural sector, food industry, and services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":11867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/frank.uz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/691620fd589f1.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"2bf59057","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"Dv78f24rp1hU":11867,"YlB8HH34jIzY":"SME lending will grow to 140 trillion tenge in 2026"},"pin_until":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2061],"tags":[2079,2154,3631,2237],"class_list":["post-12601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","tag-finance","tag-inflation","tag-lending","tag-smb"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.0 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>SME lending will grow to 140 trillion tenge in 2026 &#8212; 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