Since February 2009, when the programme was launched, a total of €1.25 billion in subsidised loans has been allocated.
More than 1,500 companies in the first month of this year received loans for liquidity amounting to approximately €130 million.
Specifically, small companies received €28 million, average-sized companies €26 million, while large companies received a total of €76 million.
There is a huge jump in investment loans, with 25 investment loans worth €1.8 million in January 2010 alone, while the whole of 2009 saw only 12 investment credits worth a total of €2.3 million.
Approximately €21 million was set aside for the purchase of cars, tractors, trucks and other consumer goods of domestic production in the same period.