2024-11-28
Balance Sheet and Interest Rates of Monetary Financial Institutions, October 2024
Today Lietuvos bankas published the balance sheet and interest rate data of monetary financial institutions (MFIs) for October 2024, which show that:
deposits of Lithuanian residents with credit institutions rose1 by €670.5 million, or 1.7%, over the month (their annual growth rate2 was 8.5%). Deposits of non-financial corporations and households increased by €215.6 million and €477.6 million, or 2.1% and 2.0%, respectively (their annual growth rates stood at 0.2% and 11.6% respectively). At the end of the month, household and non-financial corporation deposits amounted to €24.2 billion and €10.6 billion respectively. General government sector deposits increased by €28.4 million, while those of financial3 sector declined by €51.1 million in October and it stood at €5.2 billion and €1.1 billion respectively at the end of the month (see Chart 1);
| Chart 1. Deposits of Lithuanian residents, excluding MFIs, with other MFIs (outstanding amounts, end-of-period) |
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overnight deposits of Lithuanian non-financial corporations with credit institutions grew by €210.2 million, or 2.5%, while those of households rose by €380.4 million, or 2.4%. At the end of the month, the outstanding amounts of overnight deposits of these sectors stood at €8.6 billion and €16.4 billion respectively. Deposits with agreed maturity of households held with credit institutions rose by €91.9 million, or 1.2%, while those of non-financial corporations went up by €6.7 million, or 0.4%. The outstanding amounts of these deposits stood at around €7.6 billion and €1.9 billion by the end of October;
loans granted by credit institutions to Lithuanian residents increased by €291.6 million, or 1.0%, month on month (their annual growth rate was 9.7%). Loans to Lithuanian households and non-financial corporations went up by €167.9 million (1.1%) and €167.9 million (1.4%) respectively (their annual growth rates stood at 8.5% and 11.1% respectively). Loans to the financial and general government sectors declined by €19.5 and €24.8 million respectively. At the end of October 2024, loans to these sectors amounted to €15.6 billion, €11.8 billion, €1.7 billion and €332.8 million respectively (see Chart 2);
| Chart 2. Loans granted by other MFIs to Lithuanian residents, excluding MFIs (outstanding amounts, end-of-period) |
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loans to Lithuanian households for house purchase, consumption and other purposes granted by credit institutions rose by €124.0 million (1.0%), €41.1 million (3.2%) and €2.8 million (0.21%) respectively over the month. By the end of October, the outstanding amounts of these loans totalled €13.0 billion, €1.3 billion and €1.3 billion respectively (see Chart 3), and their annual growth rates stood at 7.8%, 24.4% and 2.0% respectively;
| Chart 3. Loans granted by other MFIs to Lithuanian households (outstanding amounts, end-of-period) |
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interest rates4 on new business of loans5 granted to households by credit institutions fell by 0.18 percentage points month on month to 6.03%. Interest rates on loans for house purchase and other purposes decreased by 0.25 and 2.63 percentage points respectively, while interest rates on loans for consumption grew by 0.22 percentage points. In October 2024, interest rates on these loans comprised 4.77%, 9.59% and 5.69% respectively (see Chart 4);
| Chart 4. Interest rates on new business loans for households |
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interest rates on new business of household deposits with agreed maturity held with credit institutions decreased by 0.06 percentage points to 2.92%. Interest rates on deposits with agreed maturity of up to 1 month increased by 0.06 percentage points, while interest rates on deposits of 1 to 6 months, 6 months to 1 year, 1 to 2 years and from 2 years onwards went down by 0.07, 0.06, 0.06 and 0.1 percentage points respectively. Interest rates on these deposits comprised 1.79%, 2.69%, 3.12%, 3.32% and 3.38% respectively in October 2024 (see Chart 5).
| Chart 5. Interest rates on new business deposits with agreed maturity of households |
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1 Unless otherwise specified, monthly changes in euro are presented as transactions, i.e. calculated by taking the difference between end-of-month outstanding amounts and removing the effects of revaluation adjustments, exchange rate adjustments, loan write-offs and reclassifications.
2 The annual growth rate is calculated as a percentage change in the base index of transaction-adjusted outstanding amounts over the year.
3 The financial sector consists of Lithuania’s investment funds and other financial intermediaries, as well as insurance undertakings and pension funds.
4 Weighted interest rates on new business during the reporting month, in percentages per annum.
5 New business covers financial contracts that specify for the first time the interest rate on a loan or the deposit rate, and contracts for existing loans or deposits, which were renegotiated. New business does not cover revolving loans and overdrafts, as well as credit card debt. New business deposits do not cover automatic renegotiations of existing deposit contracts.
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