The value of the increase in the investments of the banking system during the month of April reached about 16.6 billion dirhams, in an indication of a strong return for banks to pump more of their excess liquidity into tools that would maximize their returns at the present time.
The return of the banking system to more investment during April of this year contributed to increasing the cumulative balance of the investment of the device to the level of 394.2 billion dirhams, an increase of 4.4% compared to 377.6 billion dirhams in March of the same year, according to what the figures issued by the Emirates Central Bank documented .
It appears through the statistics of the Central Bank that banks have increased investments in almost all available tools, as they have increased by 13.2 billion dirhams in the investment item in securities that represent debts on others / debt securities / which increased their total balance in this item to 241.4 billion dirhams in The end of April of the year 2020, compared to 228.2 billion dirhams during the month of March of the same year.
As for the level of investments of the banking system in shares, it increased from 9.1 billion dirhams in March to 9.3 billion dirhams, with a monthly increase of 200 million dirhams, while the balance of investment in bonds held to maturity increased from 90.8 billion dirhams to 94.1 billion dirhams, and in other investments It reached about 49.4 billion dirhams, compared to 49.5 billion dirhams during the same monitoring period.