Money and the financing of the economy 2023Jul

Published on 28 August 2023

The switch from sight deposits to interest-bearing deposits continues

  • In July 2023, the domestic resources of monetary financial institutions (MFIs) included in M3 fall by -1.8% year-on-year (after -0.6% in June - see table 2). Outstanding overnight deposits continue to decrease, by -20.2 bn€ (after -14.5 bn€ in June, seasonally adjusted), which is only partly reflected in M2-M1, which rises by +13 bn€ in July (after +12.5 bn€ in June), mainly thanks to the increase in term deposits of less than two years (+11.8 bn€, after +10.2 bn€ in June).
  • After taking into account gross monetary liabilities and assets vis-à-vis the rest of the euro area, the growth rate of the French component of the euro area monetary aggregate M3 stands at -1.6% in July, after +0.4% in June (see table 2).
  • On an annual basis, MFI financing to the public sector is stable in July (+0.1%, after +0.2% in June - see table 3), while funding to the private sector continues to grow (+2.8% in July after +2.4% in June), still supported by loans to households (+2.7%, after +3.2% in June) and to non-financial companies (+4.0%, after +4.4% in June).

Table 1 - France : M3 and the financing of the economy

July 2023 (12-month cumulative flows)

Total assets -21.8 Total liabilities -21.8
Domestic General Government financing 1.0 Resources included in M3 -51.6
Of which loans -1.6 M1 -292.5
Of which securities 2.6 M2 - M1 204.7
Domestic private sector financing 100.8 M3 - M2 36.1
Of which loans to households 46.3 Long-term resources (a) 29.9
Of which loans to NFCs 52.1
Net external assets 8.6
Remaining counterparts (b) -132.1


(a) Deposits over 2 years, debt securities issued, capital and reserves, central government deposits.
(b) Net of inter-MFI assets and liabilities, net of other balance sheet items (financial derivatives, accounting lags, fixed assets), currency in circulation, gold, SDR.

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Table 2 - France : monetary resources of monetary financial institutions
Decomposition of French component of euro-area M3 Outstandings
(in € Bn)
Annual growth
rate (in %)
Flows
(en € Bn) (a)
juil. 2023 Jun-2023 juil. 2023 Jun-2023 juil. 2023
Overnight deposits 1,355 -15.8 -17.8 -14.5 -20.2
= Domestic resources included in M1 1,355 -15.8 -17.8 -14.5 -20.2
Deposits with agreed maturity of up to 2 years 297 122.1 120.5 10.2 11.8
+ Saving accounts 900 5.7 5.2 2.4 1.2
= Domestic resources included in M2-M1 1,197 20.6 20.7 12.5 13.0
MMF shares 278 14.4 24.5 1.3 -2.9
+ Repurchase agreements 20 -54.5 -56.2 -0.6 0.6
+ Debt securities issued with a maturity of up to 2 years 41 66.6 21.1 -2.8 -4.4
= Domestic resources included in M3-M2 339 11.8 11.9 -2.1 -6.7
Sum of domestic resources included in M3 2,892 -0.6 -1.8 -4.1 -13.9
+ Monetary external liabilities vis-à-vis other monetary union members 360 19.7 10.7 18.1 -10.5
- Monetary external assets vis-à-vis other monetary union members 91 43.8 57.4 4.5 2.3
= French component of euro area monetary aggregate M3 3,160 0.4 -1.6 9.5 -26.7

(a) Seasonally-adjusted data.


Source and production: Banque de France - Direction générale de la statistique, des études et de l'international
Table 3 - Counterparts of domestic resources included in M3
Outstandings
(in € Bn)
Annual growth
rate (in %)
Flows
(en € Bn) (a)
juil. 2023 Jun-2023 juil. 2023 Jun-2023 juil. 2023
ASSETS
Domestic General government financing (1) 1,154 0.2 0.1 3.3 -2.7
Of which loans 210 -1.2 -0.8 -0.2 0.2
Of which securities 945 0.6 0.3 3.5 -2.9
Domestic private sector financing (2) 3,686 2.4 2.8 -10.4 19.3
Of which loans to households 1,731 3.2 2.7 1.5 0.7
Of which loans to NFCs 1,345 4.4 4.0 0.8 4.7
Net external assets (3) 318 -16.5 -1.0 3.2 8.8
Remaining counterparts (b) (4) 314 -12.8 -32.7 7.4 -43.4
LIABILITIES
Long-term resources (c) (5) 2,581 1.3 1.2 7.7 -4.1
Domestic resources included in M3 (1)+(2)+(3)+(4)-(5) 2,892 -0.6 -1.8 -4.1 -13.9

(a) Seasonally-adjusted data.
(b) Net of inter-MFI assets and liabilities, net of other balance sheet items (financial derivatives, accounting lags, fixed assets), currency in circulation, gold, SDR.
(c) Deposits over 2 years, debt securities issued, capital and reserves, central government deposits.

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Contributions to the growth of the domestic resources included in M3
Contribution of monetary counterparts to growth of the domestic resources included in M3
Source and production: Banque de France - Direction générale de la statistique, des études et de l'international
Additional information
Resources included in M3 (excluding banknotes and coins) consist of investments with a maturity of up to two years held by money-holding agents (households, non-financial corporations, General government excluding central government, insurance companies, pension funds, non-monetary mutual funds, investment firms and special purpose vehicles, for the most part) with monetary financial institutions (MFI).

Monetary financial institutions (MFIs) include credit institutions, finance companies, the Caisse des dépôts et consignations, money market funds and the Banque de France.

Saving accounts include Livret A and Livret Bleu passbooks, sustainable development and solidarity passbooks, home savings accounts, popular savings passbooks, youth passbooks and ordinary passbooks. Regulated savings are partly centralized in the Savings Fund managed by the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations and thus only pass through the banks' balance sheets. Repurchase agreements are temporary purchases of securities by customers (particularly companies, insurance companies and non-money market funds). Debt securities with a maximum maturity of two years mainly comprise Negotiable EUropean Commercial Paper (NEUCP) issued by French banks and subscribed by customers that are not credit institutions or money market funds.

Funding of the economy includes all financing provided by MFIs to the domestic public and private sectors, in the form of loans and securities (debt and equity). For loans to households and nonfinancial companies (NFCs), loans transferred (securitisations) with impact on banks' balance sheets are reintegrated.

Net external assets correspond to the balance (assets minus liabilities) of MFI operations with the rest of the world.

Long-term inflows of MFIs include capital and reserves, debt securities issued by MFIs with a maturity of more than 2 years, deposits with a maturity of more than 2 years and central government deposits.

The item "Remaining counterparts" includes the balance of inter-MFI receivables and liabilities, the net of other balance sheet items (financial derivatives, accounting differences, fixed assets) and currency in circulation.

Growth rates for the outstanding amounts are calculated by adjusting changes in stocks for effects not resulting from economic transactions, in particular corrections for classification errors, but not for exchange rate effects.

The data on outstanding amounts, annual growth rates, and 12-month cumulative flows published in this Statinfo are not seasonally adjusted, but the monthly flow data are.
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Updated on 31 August 2023