The data also showed that the consolidated budget of the banking system increased from $ 194.1 billion at the end of January of 2019 to $ 205.2 billion at the end of January of this year, registering an increase of $ 11.1 billion, or 5.7%.
The data reflected the increase in the value of the total outstanding loans and credit facilities provided by the retail sector banks to 9,674.6 million dinars at the end of January 2020 compared to 9,523.5 million dinars at the end of January of 2019, an increase of 1.6%. This amount includes outstanding loans and facilities provided to business sector institutions, which amounted to 5,103.4 million dinars at the end of January of this year compared to 5,064.9 million dinars at the end of the same period last year, an increase of 0.8%.
On the other hand, the data showed that the value of credit and debit card transactions through point of sale platforms has increased by 43.7 million dinars, as the value of these operations reached 225.4 million dinars in January of 2020 compared to 181.7 million dinars in January of last year, an increase It is 24.1%.
The consolidated budget of the retail sector increased by 2.2 billion dinars, or 6.7%. As the consolidated budget reached 35.1 billion dinars at the end of January of 2020 compared to 32.9 billion dinars in January of the previous year. The data also showed an increase in local deposits of non-banks in local and foreign currencies to 13.5 billion dinars at the end of January of 2020 compared to 12.2 billion dinars at the end of January of 2019, an increase of 10.7%.
