Gross banks' assets up by 1.9% to AED4,719.4 bn. at end of March
The money supply aggregate M2 increased by 3.3%, increasing from AED 2,360.3 billion at the end of February 2025 to AED2,437.7 billion at the end of March 2025. M2 increased because of an elevated M1, and AED73.8 billion increase in Quasi-Monetary Deposits.
The money supply aggregate M3 also increased by 2.9%, from AED2,811.7 billion at the end of February 2025 to AED2,893.7 billion at the end of March 2025. M3 increased due to the growth in M2, and AED4.5 billion increase in government deposits.
The monetary base increased by 2.0%, from AED816.6 billion at the end of February 2025 to AED833.1 billion at the end of March 2025. The growth in the monetary base was driven by increases in currency issued by 4.1% and in reserve account by 62.0%, overriding the decrease in banks & OFCs' current accounts & overnight deposits of banks at CBUAE by 64.2% and in monetary bills & Islamic certificates of deposit by 6.3%.
Gross banks' assets, including bankers' acceptances, increased by 1.9% from AED4,632.2 billion at the end of February 2025 to AED4,719.4 billion at the end of March 2025.
Gross credit increased by 1.6% from AED2,204.3 billion at the end of February 2025 to AED2,240.0 billion at the end of March 2025. Gross credit increased due the combined growth in domestic credit by AED19.5 billion and foreign credit by AED16.2 billion. The growth in domestic credit was due to increases in credit to the; public sector (government-related entities) by 0.2%, private sector by 1.4% and non-banking financial institutions by 1.9%, while credit to the government sector decreased by 0.3%.
Banks' deposits increased by 2.3%, from AED2,871.5 billion at the end of February 2025 to AED2,936.4 billion at the end of March 2025. The increase in bank deposits was driven by the shared growth in resident deposits by 2.4%, settling at AED2,687.8 billion and in non- resident deposits by 0.4%, reaching AED248.6 billion. Within the resident deposits; government-related entities deposits increased by 4.3%, private sector deposits increased by 3.1% and non-banking financial institutions deposits increased by 5.1%, while deposits to the government sector decreased by 2.3%, by the end of March 2025.
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