{"id":159336,"date":"2021-06-07T06:17:09","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T10:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=159336"},"modified":"2021-06-07T08:16:29","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T12:16:29","slug":"banks-lend-over-rd3-billion-to-small-businesses-in-first-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/06\/07\/banks-lend-over-rd3-billion-to-small-businesses-in-first-quarter\/","title":{"rendered":"Banks lend over RD$3 billion to small businesses in first quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Dominican-pesos-Youtube-e1573572476229.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-126088\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Dominican banking system is betting on the smaller and smallest of businesses. Banks have lent over RD$3 billion to the micro-business sector in the first three months of this year, up over 60% from this time a year ago. The monies were allocated to working capital and for acquiring capital goods for the businesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As elsewhere in the world today, Dominican banks have a cash surplus after Dominicans have not been traveling and there is less consumer spending in general.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/n.com.do\/2021\/06\/04\/los-bancos-prestaron-rd3035-millones-a-microempresas-entre-enero-y-abril\/\">N Digital<\/a><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6 June 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dominican banking system is betting on the smaller and smallest of businesses. Banks have lent over RD$3 billion to the micro-business sector in the first three months of this year, up over 60% from this time a year ago. The monies were allocated to working capital and for acquiring capital goods for the businesses. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/06\/07\/banks-lend-over-rd3-billion-to-small-businesses-in-first-quarter\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[290,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159336"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159336"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159427,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159336\/revisions\/159427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}