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Romania’s typical overdue debtor is a man, aged 30-34, who lives in capital Bucharest and who has taken out a consumer loan in local currency, the Credit Bureau head said Thursday.

Two million Romanians of a total of 4.8 million within the Credit Bureau account deemed to be bad loan payers in the last four years, the bureau’s director general Serban Epure said Wednesday.

The Romanian Banking Association, or ARB, might ask authorities to allow service providers, especially mobile telephony operators, to provide client data to the Bucharest Credit Bureau, ARB president Radu Gratian Ghetea said Wednesday.

Bucharest’s Credit Bureau has so far stored data on the financial behavior of 3.8 million people with over 6 million accounts, thus, adding another two million people to its database, compared with 2006, the Bureau’s general manager Serban Epure said.