UAE Banking Sector Shows Robust Growth in Early 2025
Dubai, UAE – June 23, 2025 – The United Arab Emirates (UAE) banking sector continues to demonstrate strong performance, with investments reaching 763.8 billion dirhams by the end of March 2025.This represents a significant 14.9% year-over-year increase and a 3.9% growth since the start of the year,with a monthly increase of 1% [articledetails].
Key highlights:
Investment Breakdown: Investments are diversified across securities (343.2 billion dirhams), bonds (345.3 billion dirhams), stocks (18.7 billion dirhams), and other investments (56.6 billion dirhams) [articledetails]. Credit Expansion: Total bank credit has risen to 2.24 trillion dirhams, a 9.4% annual increase, with local credit accounting for 1.868 trillion dirhams [articledetails]. Private sector loans stand at 1.377 trillion dirhams, and individual loans at 505.9 billion dirhams [articledetails].
Deposit Growth: Total banking deposits reached 2.936 trillion dirhams,comprised of 2.687 trillion dirhams in resident deposits and 248.6 billion dirhams in non-resident deposits [articledetails].
Regional performance: Abu Dhabi saw a 4.1% increase in total bank assets as December, reaching 2.26 trillion dirhams.
