The Central Bank’s (BDL) balance sheet posted a 1.67% monthly growth in total assets to $87.13B in the first month of 2015.
The bank’s foreign assets ticked down slightly by 0.01% to $37.86B, below its $38.87B high at the end of October 2014, but remained at a very high level. Meanwhile loans to the local financial sector grew by 3.20% to $4.35B. During the same period, BDL’s securities portfolio widened 4.35% to $14.59B.
Looking at the gold reserves, they added 6.48% compared to last month, reaching $11.66B.
On the liabilities side, financial sector deposits grew by 1.86% month-on-month to $68.74B, while public sector deposits declined 3.38% to $5.85B by January, 2015.