OREANDA-NEWS. January 27, 2009. One of the priorities of the National Bank of Uzbekistan for Foreign Economic Activity (NBU) is to finance small and private businesses.

NBU finances projects of the small and private businesses with attraction of foreign credit lines from international financial institutions like the EBRD, ADB, IFC, OPEC Fund, etc.

The bank said it allocated the significant part of hard currency credits to businesses in Uzbekistan.

NBU accepted 196 projects with the cost of US485.6 million for financing in 2008, of which US285.6 million is credit sum.