- An increase of 110.2 million lats or 3.6% in foreign assets due to the increase in the amount of the funds deposited by the Latvian Government and income from debt securities and the equivalent of financial derivatives.
- An increase of 7.7 million lats or 4.9% in foreign liabilities as a result of changes in the lats equivalent of financial derivatives and the foreign exchange rates.
- A rise of 9.9 million lats or 26.8% in domestic assets following a 10.0 million lats increase in loans granted to credit institutions.
- A rise of 109.3 million lats or 6.3% in domestic liabilities as a result of a 137.1 million lats increase in the government funds with the Bank of Latvia and 27.3 million lats and 0.8 million lats decrease in the respective balances of the credit institutions' funds and other financial institutions' funds with the Bank of Latvia.
- On the liabilities side of the balance sheet, the amount of lats in circulation decreased by 19.2 million lats or 1.9% mainly due to the above changes.
- An increase of 22.2 million lats in the capital and reserves as the revaluation account balance increased due to securities market value fluctuations and retained earnings of the reporting year grew.
Vilnis Purviņš
Head of Macroeconomic Analysis Division
Monetary Policy Department
Bank of Latvia