New BRSA Decision on Limitation of Credit Utilization Published
The Banking Regulation and Supervision Board (BDDK) Decision No. 10250 dated 24.06.2022 imposed certain restrictions on the credit usage of companies subject to independent audit, and additional clarifications and regulations were made with Decision No. 10265 dated 07.07.2022.
In these Decisions, it was stated that companies subject to independent audit with a total foreign currency (FC) deposit including gold and cash foreign currency (FC) exceeding 15 million TL as of the credit application date, and whose FC assets are more than 10% of the larger of their total assets based on the latest financial statements or their net sales revenue for the last year, will not be allowed to take new Turkish lira (TL) commercial loans.
Then, a new BDDK Decision dated 21.10.2022 and numbered 10389 was published, and the restrictions on credit usage were tightened. According to this Decision, the threshold values of “15 million TL” and “10%” have been reduced to “10 million TL” and “5%” respectively, and these will be applied by the banks, financial leasing, factoring, and finance companies within the scope of this Decision starting from 01.11.2022, unless another Board Decision is made.
Accordingly, for companies subject to independent audit, if the total foreign currency (FC) deposits, including gold and effective foreign currency, exceed 10 million TL as of the credit application date, and their FC assets exceed 5% of the larger of their total assets or net sales revenue for the last year based on the latest financial statements, they will not be allowed to take new Turkish lira (TL) commercial loans.
According to this Decision, the new threshold values will be effective starting from 01.11.2022, and the previous threshold values will continue to apply between 01.10.2022 and 31.10.2022.
You can access our Circular No. 42 dated 27.06.2022 here.
You can access our Circular No. 52 dated 08.07.2022 here.
You can access the BDDK Decision No. 10389 dated 21.10.2022 here.
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