22.10.2022/67

A New BDDK Decision on the Limitation of Credit Uses Has Been Published

With the Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency’s (BDDK) Decision No. 10250 dated 24.06.2022, certain restrictions were imposed on the credit use of companies subject to independent auditing, and additional clarifications and regulations were made with the BDDK Decision No. 10265 dated 07.07.2022.

In these Decisions, it was stated that independent auditing companies whose total foreign currency (FX) deposits, including gold and cash FX, exceed 15 million TRY on the date of the loan application, would not be allowed to use new cash commercial loans in TRY if their FX assets exceeded 10% of the larger of either their total assets according to the latest financial statements or their annual net sales revenue for the last 12 months.

Now, a new BDDK Decision No. 10389, dated 21.10.2022, has been published, and the restrictions on credit use have been increased. According to this new Decision, the threshold values of “15 million TRY” and “10%” will be applied as “10 million TRY” and “5%” by banks, financial leasing, factoring, and financing companies within the scope of this Decision, starting from 01.11.2022, until a contrary decision is made by the BDDK.

Thus, independent auditing companies whose total foreign currency (FX) deposits exceed 10 million TRY on the date of the loan application will not be allowed to use new cash commercial loans in TRY if their FX assets exceed 5% of the larger of either their total assets according to the latest financial statements or their annual net sales revenue for the last 12 months.

According to this Decision, the new threshold values will come into effect on 01.11.2022, and the previous threshold values will continue to apply for the period between 01.10.2022 and 31.10.2022.

You can access our Circular No. 42 dated 27.06.2022 on this subject here.
You can also access our Circular No. 52 dated 08.07.2022 on this subject here.
You can access the BDDK Decision No. 10389 dated 21.10.2022 here.

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