Bank lending showed year-on-year growth of 4.5 percent in December 2020 compared to 5.2 percent in November 2020, with an increase in loans to the non-financial sector of 3.9 percent, according to Bank Al-Maghrib (BAM).
“This change reflects the slowdown in the growth of loans to private non-financial corporations from six percent to 4.7 percent and to public non-financial corporations at 0.5 percent, following a +4.4 percent compared to the previous month, BAM explained in its memo on key indicators of monetary statistics for December 2020.
It further highlighted the acceleration in the growth of loans to households from 2.7 percent to 3.4 percent.
The distribution of loans granted to non-financial sector according to the economic purpose indicates a continuous decline in consumer loans from 3.3 percent to 4.2 percent, an acceleration in the growth of loans to real estate by 2.1 percent to 2.5 percent and a decrease in equipment loans of three percent after +1.5 percent.
Meanwhile, the monetary aggregate (M3), which represents the money supply, recorded an annual growth of 8.5 percent in December 2020 compared to 7.7 percent in November 2020, BAM noted in its latest monetary statistics.
This development reflects the increase in the growth of demand deposits at banks to 10.6 percent, the further decrease in term accounts from 12.9 percent to 9.6 percent and the deceleration in the growth of currency in circulation from 20.6 percent to 20.1 percent.
Year-on-year, the M3 increased in December by 2.7 percent to amount to1,486.8 billion dirhams, mainly reflecting the four percent increase in sight deposits with banks and 1.7 percent in accounts term, BAM said.
On the other hand, the evolution of M3 is mainly attributable to the increase in bank credit of 2.1 percent and that of official reserve assets of 9.9 percent, the bank noted.
