What Factors Underpin Bank Disintermediation and How Can We Stimulate the Lending Activity?
What Factors Underpin Bank Disintermediation and How Can We Stimulate the Lending Activity?

Author(s): Dumitru Pintea
Subject(s): Economy, Financial Markets
Published by: EXPERT-GRUP Centrul Analitic Independent
Keywords: Banking Sector Moldova;
Summary/Abstract: In order to identify the mechanisms/tools that could be used by NBM, banks and Government to overcome this lack of confidence and resume the lending activity, Expert-Grup committed to facilitate the dialogue between commercial banks, NBM, experts and other stakeholders. How we can stimulate the lending activity and bring back trust in the bank-customer relationship study was developed for this purpose1. This document focused on two subject lines. On the one hand, the study aims to identify the actual causes that fuel the bank disintermediation and the constraints that hinder the expansion of bank loans, on the other hand – to present solution how to foster this activity. In addition, in order to explore the actual situation, the Questionnaire for Assessing the Lending Activity was developed and sent to banks. This tool allowed forming a much clearer picture of the constraints affecting the demand and supply by types of loans. In the end, the results were discussed at a round table attended by representatives of commercial banks, Government, top management of NBM and other economic experts. The presence of all the stakeholders around the same table allowed to express the inside vision on this phenomenon and this note comes to synthesize and to totalise the results of the actions conducted by Expert-Grup in order to identify the factors underlying the bank disintermediation and the solutions regarding the stimulation of lending activity.

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