The balance sheet of the Lebanese Central Bank (BdL) revealed that total assets reached $94.73B by mid-April 2016, recording a 0.44% monthly increase from mid-March’s level and a 6.54% rise from mid-April 2015’s level.
Although foreign assets, constituting 38.33% of total assets, fell by a monthly 1.04% to $36.31B, securities portfolio (21.20% of the total assets) added 3.06% month-on-month (m-o-m) to $20.09B by mid-April 2016. Similarly, the value of gold reserves (11.98% of total assets) ticked down by 0.28% from mid-March’s level to $11.35B, following the 0.30% decrease in international gold prices to 1231$/ounce over the same period.
As for loans to the financial sector (5.68% share of total assets), they barely increased from $5.33B in mid-March 2016 to $5.38B in mid-April 2016.
On the liabilities side, financial sector deposits, with a share of 80.13% of the total, inched up 1.36% (m-o-m) to $75.90B in mid-April 2016. Similarly, public sector deposits (5.44% of total liabilities) decreased by 10.19% from mid-March 2015 to reach $5.15B at the 15th of April 2016.
BDL’s Total Assets by Mid-April (in $B)
Source: BDL