The National Bank of Georgia (NBG) published information about the current tendencies of resident commercial banks’ loan portfolios and deposits as of April 2024.

The total volume of non-bank deposits in the country’s banking sector increased by 1.03% or by 533.75 million GEL (exchange rate effect excluded volume of deposits increased by 1.31%), compared to the end of March 2024 and constituted 52.35 billion GEL by the end of April 2024.

In April, the volume of term deposits increased by 1.15 billion GEL (by 5.27%; exchange rate effect excluded volume of term deposits increased by 5.51%). Demand deposits decreased by 616.79 million GEL (by 2.06%; exchange rate effect excluded volume of demand deposits decreased by 1.74%).

The larization ratio of total non-bank deposits constituted 51.75% by the end of April 2024 and increased by 1.41 percentage point (exchange rate effect excluded by 1.27 percentage point) compared to the end of March 2024.

The market interest rate on term deposits constituted 7.07%. In particular, the market interest rate for national currency-denominated deposits was 9.28% and the market interest rate for foreign currency-denominated deposits was 1.90%.

The share of the US dollar in the total volume of foreign currency-denominated deposits equals 77.96% and the share of the Euro equals 20.21%, the NBG said.