The Central Bank’s (BDL) balance sheet posted a 0.18% monthly increase in total assets to $91.63B in September 2015.
In details, foreign assets, constituting 41.74% of total assets, fell by 0.89% from the previous month, to $38.25B while gold reserves (11.31% shares of total assets) also declined monthly by 0.76% to $10.36B, over the same period. The latter drop occurred due to the 1.75% fall in international gold quote to 1,115.09 $/ounce during the month of September. In contrast, securities portfolio (18.36% of total assets) increased by 0.75% to $16.82B over the same period. Worth mentioning, loans to financial sector (5.25% share of total assets) also grew by 2.53% month-on-month to reach $4.81B.
On the liabilities section, financial sector deposits ticked up by 0.87% to $74.08B, grasping 80.85% of the total liabilities. Meanwhile, public sector deposits (5.54% share of total liabilities) experienced a 12.58% monthly decline to $5.08B.
BDL’s Total Assets by September (in $B)
Source: BDL