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Soaring prices stretch the budget of the French, forced to dig into their woolen stockings or take out consumer credit, to give themselves some air. The Association of Financial Companies (ASF), which represents more than half of the market, recorded a 9.2% jump in consumer credit production in the first quarter of 2022, compared to the same period last year. last, and 10.5% if we compare to 2019, the reference year before the health crisis. “We are seeing real vigor in the market that began at the end of 2021, underlines Françoise Palle-Guillabert, general delegate of the ASF. We are back to pre-health crisis levels, and even better. »