About half of the government's financing support measures New coronavirus April 20 20:33

It was found that about half of the applications for loans such as interest-free and unsecured loans were financed by SMEs affected by the new coronavirus. Since the processing is not keeping up with the rapidly increasing number of applications, how to accelerate the loan execution is an issue.

The government's cash-flow support policy provides a system for SMEs, such as ▽ substantial interest-free and unsecured loans, and ▽ the government guaranteeing virtually 100% of borrowing from private financial institutions. I will.

According to the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, the Japan Policy Finance Corporation, which serves as a window for interest-free and unsecured loans, had 246,600 applications by 16th of this month, but it was actually executed. There are 125,400 cases, which is about half.

Although we are increasing the number of people responding at the counter, recently more than 10,000 applications are received per day, and it is not possible to keep up with the processing, so how to accelerate the speed of loaning is an issue Has become.

On the other hand, the credit guarantee associations nationwide that guarantee borrowing from private financial institutions pointed out that some of the cases initially took time, but by the end of this month, 90,000 applications had been received. That is, more than 80% of the 74,000 loans were made.