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April 24, 2025
In February, outstanding loans to the non-financial private sector maintained double-digit annual growth, while traditional deposits slowed by 1.7% YoY in real terms compared to January. This trend is consistent with a context of anticipated foreign demand to avoid tariffs amid a local slowdown.
March 29, 2025
Despite the economic slowdown, credit granted by commercial banks to the private sector grew 14.4% YoY in nominal terms. The balance of traditional bank deposits also grew at a nominal rate of 10.2% YoY. In both cases, businesses were the main driver behind this growth.
March 27, 2025
In a context of an economic slowdown, currency depreciation, and high interest rates, the financial system was characterized in 2024 by maintaining robust domestic financing sources, channeled primarily to the public sector and households through bank loans.
February 13, 2025
Spanish banks are rapidly translating the reduction in official interest rates to new lending operations' interest rates, which benefits borrowers. In the case of deposits, the transmission is slightly slower than in the hiking cycle, which benefits depositors.
January 20, 2025
The effects of the exchange rate depreciation and the "Buen fin" influenced the acceleration of current credit to a nominal annual rate of 13.2% in November. This also influenced the acceleration of bank deposits up to 10.5% nominal. Going forward, the weakness of activity and employment points to a slowdown.
November 13, 2024
In September, current credit to the NFPS slowed down 0.5% YoY in real terms, as a result of the lower dynamism of consumer and business credit. Traditional deposits decelerated 0.6% YoY in real terms, as a consequence of the continued weakness of term deposits. A feeble economic activity seems to lie beneath both dynamics.
October 16, 2024
In August, both deposits and credit rose in annual terms with respect to July, supported, in part, by the accounting effect of the exchange rate depreciation. Companies and other financial intermediaries were behind the increase in deposits, while consumer and business credit supported credit.
September 19, 2024
The economic slowdown is already showing effects on banking activity. In July, credit to the non-financial private sector registered a widespread weakening, while traditional deposits grew less than in June, even considering the boosting effect of the exchange rate depreciation.
September 6, 2024
The weekly growth of FX-adjusted credits continued to decelerate in the last week of August from 0.9% to 0.6% due to commercial credits in the sector and consumer credits of private banks. Total credits’ 4 week average trend fell to 0.4%.
September 2, 2024
The year 2023 ended with a declining banking sector marked by the contraction of credit and the slowdown in deposits due to the ECB's restrictive monetary policy. However, the easing of interest rates and this monetary policy in 2024 has improved credit performance and boosted growth of deposits
August 22, 2024
Credit to the non-financial private sector accelerated in June (7.5% in real terms) hand in hand with corporate credit. On the deposits side, the increase in demand deposits and the exchange rate depreciation supported the stabilization of traditional deposits.
