BDL’s Foreign Reserve Assets Stand at $11.43B after a $245.8M Decrease in the Last Two Weeks of April 2026

According to Banque du Liban’s (BDL) balance sheet, the Central Bank’s total assets decreased by 0.89% Year-on-Year (YoY), reaching $93.02B by end-April 2026.

Furthermore, the gold account, representing 45.91% of BDL’s total assets, increased by 41.32% yearly to reach $42.71B by end-April 2026. Regarding foreign assets item, recently BDL amended it and replaced it by foreign reserve assets item to include only non-resident and liquid foreign assets. Thus, other resident and / or illiquid assets were transferred to securities portfolio or loans to local financial sector. In more details, Lebanese Government Eurobonds with a nominal value of $4.85B were transferred to securities portfolio; whereas $298.8M was transferred to loans to financial sector. As such, BDL foreign reserve assets, consisting of 12.29% of total assets (after transferring the Eurobonds to securities portfolio and the other resident and / or illiquid assets to loans to financial sector) rose by 3.37% YoY and stood at $11.43B by end-April 2026. Additionally, foreign reserve assets fell by $245.8M in the last two weeks of April 2026.

On the liabilities front, financial sector deposits, representing 87.49% of BDL’s total liabilities, decreased by 4.26% annually and reached $81.4B by end-April 2026 compared to last year, of which more than 90% are denominated in dollars. Moreover, public sector deposits, representing 10.02% of BDL’s total liabilities, surged by 36.29% yearly and reached $9.32B by end-April 2026. Lastly, currency in circulation outside of BDL, consisting of 0.75% of BDL’s total liabilities, fell by 22.05% annually to reach $696.1M by end-April 2026.

BDL Total Assets, Foreign Reserve Assets and Currency in Circulation by End-April 2026 ($B):

 _{Source: BDL, BLOMINVEST}

N.B.: The foreign assets figures starting 2023 in the above graph are net of Lebanese Eurobonds.