Residents of New and Crimean regions received 148 billion rubles in retail loans in the nine months from January to September 2026. Residents of the DPR, LPR, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, Crimea and Sevastopol issued 546,600 retail loans totaling 147.74 billion rubles, according to data from the United Credit Bureau (UCB). In September, banks issued 78.9 thousand loans worth 20.05 billion rubles. Compared to August, the volume of loans increased by 17.6%, and the number of issues by 2.2%. In the number of issues, credit cards were the leaders - 47.2 thousand. (59.8%), followed by cash loans - 27.2 thousand. (34.5%). At the same time, in terms of volume, cash loans took the first place - 7.25 billion rubles, second - mortgages with 6.85 billion rubles, of which 5.22 billion for programs with state support. For comparison, in Russia as a whole, in September the issuance of loans to individuals reached 1.3 trillion rubles, an increase of 20.8% during the month. For nine months, the volume of loans amounted to 9.1 trillion rubles - 41% more than a year earlier, according to Frank RG.