2016-09-27
The Bank of Lithuania’s holdings of debt securities issued by euro area residents increased by EUR 196.1 million, while loans to euro area residents decreased by EUR 6.4 million over the month. These indicators amounted to EUR 5.2 billion and EUR 558.1 million respectively at the end of the month. Euro area resident deposits held with the Bank of Lithuania over the month increased by 232.5 million — to EUR 4.7 billion. Loans of other monetary financial institutions (MFIs) to Lithuanian residents, excluding MFIs, increased by EUR 206.1 million, to EUR 18.4 billion at the end of the month. The deposits of Lithuanian residents, excluding MFIs, with other MFIs increased by EUR 123.1 million — to EUR 17.0 billion. Loans of other MFIs to Lithuanian households for house purchase, consumption and other purposes increased by EUR 36.8 million, EUR 8.1 million and EUR 6.0 million respectively over the month.
The above data was released today by the Statistics Department of the Bank of Lithuania.
For more information on official reserve assets in August 2016 see the Bank of Lithuania‘s press release on statistics (134.9 KB download icon).