3.8% The rise in foreign currency deposits in the Central Bank of Jordan

Media In / Amman 6 March 2019

The Central Bank of Jordan announced that the percentage of deposits in foreign currencies increased by 3.8% at the end of last year to 8.18 billion Jordanian dinars, compared with 7.55 billion at the end of 2017.
The bank said in a press release that private sector deposits rose by 1% at the end of last year to KD 26.944 billion, 26.91 billion Jordanian dinars.
The value of deposits in Jordanian Dinars from the private sector deposits amounted to 77.3% at JD 20.84 billion, while deposits in foreign currencies for the private sector amounted to JD 6.098 billion, constituting 22.6%.