According to the balance sheet of the Lebanese Central Bank (BdL), total assets rose by 2.39% on a monthly basis to reach $120.86B in mid-January.
In details, foreign assets (constituting 35.20% of total assets) and Gold reserves (10.24% of the total assets) increased by 1.80% and 6.73% month-on-month (m-o-m) to $12.37B and $42.54B, respectively. Moreover, Loans to the local financial sector (grasping an 11.38% share of total assets) rose by 17.64% to $13.76B in mid-January 2018. Nonetheless, Securities’ Portfolio (24.46% of total assets) registered a slight decline of 0.48% to $29.56B in mid-January 2018.
On the liabilities side, Financial sector deposits, grasping a share of 82.32% of total liabilities, increased by a monthly 4.6% to $99.49B. Meanwhile, Public sector deposits (5.15% of total liabilities) slid from $7.56B to $6.23B
Total Assets Composition By Mid-January 2018
Source: BDL