- An increase of 96.5 million lats or 3.5% in foreign assets, with the Bank of Latvia purchasing foreign currency and engaging in currency swaps.
- An increase of 7.0 million lats or 6.0% in foreign liabilities as a result of a rise in the lats equivalent of financial derivatives.
- A 46.9 million lats or 2.4 times growth in domestic assets, following a 46.8 million lats increase in loans granted to credit institutions.
- A rise of 122.9 million lats or 8.3% in domestic liabilities as a result of 83.2 million lats and 39.9 million lats increases in the respective balances of the credit institutions' funds and government funds with the Bank of Latvia.
- On the liabilities side of the balance sheet, the amount of lats in circulation increased by 2.8 million lats or 0.3% mainly due to the above changes.
- An increase of 10.7 million lats in the capital and reserves as the revaluation account balance changed due to securities market value fluctuations and retained earnings of the reporting year grew.
Head of the Macroeconomic Analysis Division
Monetary Policy Department
Bank of Latvia