Money and the financing of the economy 2024Apr

Published on 29 May 2024

Growth in financing to the private sector remained stable in April, for both households and NFCs
  • Withdrawals from overnight deposits continued in April 2024 (-€7.3 bn after -€7.9 bn in March; seasonally-adjusted flows, and, on an annual basis, -9.9% after -10.3% in March, see table 2) and, in parallel, outstanding amounts on interest-bearing deposits (M2-M1) increased by a similar order of magnitude (+€5.4 bn in April and +9.2% y-o-y).


  • The growth rate of domestic resources of monetary financial institutions (MFIs) included in M3 accelerated slightly in April (+1.3% year-on-year, after +1.0% in March; see table 2). After taking into account gross monetary assets and liabilities vis-à-vis the rest of the euro area, the annual growth rate of the French component of the euro area monetary aggregate M3 increased further to +2.8% (after +1.9% in March).


  • Growth in financing to the private sector held steady in April (+1.5% year-on-year in April, after +1.6% in March; see table 3), both for loans to households (+0.4% after +0.4% in March) and to non-financial companies (+1.4% after +1.5% in March).



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

April 2024 (12-month cumulative flows. bn€)

Total assets 224.6 Total liabilities 224.6
Domestic General Government financing 3.5 Resources included in M3 36.7
Of which loans -3.2 M1 -138.3
Of which securities 6.8 M2 - M1 107.5
Domestic private sector financing 55.7 M3 - M2 67.4
Of which loans to households 6.8 Long-term resources (a) 188.0
Of which loans to NFCs 19.1
Net external assets 85.8
Remaining counterparts (b) 79.6


(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.

Source and production: Banque de France - Direction générale de la statistique, des études et de l'international
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
(Bn€) (a)
Apr- 2024 (p) Mar- 2024 (r) Apr- 2024 (p) Mar- 2024 (r) Apr- 2024 (p)
Overnight deposits 1,253 -10.3 -9.9 -7.9 -7.3
= Domestic resources included in M1 1,253 -10.3 -9.9 -7.9 -7.3
Deposits with agreed maturity of up to 2 years 347 31.2 31.2 2.2 4.4
+ Saving accounts 921 2.7 2.7 0.1 1.0
= Domestic resources included in M2-M1 1,268 9.3 9.2 2.2 5.4
MMF shares 330 18.6 16.5 10.4 0.6
+ Repurchase agreements 55 17.8 23.3 2.7 6.1
+ Debt securities issued with a maturity of up to 2 years 50 13.2 12.6 3.9 0.2
= Domestic resources included in M3-M2 435 18.8 18.5 16.9 6.9
Sum of domestic resources included in M3 2,956 1.0 1.3 11.3 4.9
+ Monetary external liabilities vis-à-vis other monetary union members 416 14.9 20.4 9.8 6.7
- Monetary external assets vis-à-vis other monetary union members 102 26.6 20.9 -0.1 1.3
= French component of euro area monetary aggregate M3 3,271 1.9 2.8 21.2 10.3
(a) Seasonally-adjusted data.
(p) Provisional
(r) Revised

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
(Bn€) (a)
Apr- 2024 (p) Mar- 2024 (r) Apr- 2024 (p) Mar- 2024 (r) Apr- 2024 (p)
ASSETS 5,744 3.7 4.1 27.5 25.2
Domestic General government financing (1) 1,176 -0.2 0.3 -2.9 5.2
Of which loans 206 -1.6 -1.5 -0.4 -0.9
Of which securities 971 0.1 0.7 -2.5 6.1
Domestic private sector financing (2) 3,715 1.6 1.5 3.3 0.7
Of which loans to households (c) 1,723 0.4 0.4 -0.8 0.6
Of which loans to NFCs (c) 1,354 1.5 1.4 1.1 3.8
Net external assets (3) 390 14.0 28.1 13.3 26.1
Remaining counterparts (a) (4) 462 29.4 26.2 13.7 -6.8
LIABILITIES 5,744 3.7 4.1 27.5 25.2
Long-term resources (b) (5) 2,787 6.8 7.4 16.2 20.2
Domestic resources included in M3 (1)+(2)+(3)+(4)-(5) 2,956 1.0 1.3 11.3 4.9
(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.
(p) Provisional
(r) Revised


Source and production: Banque de France - Direction générale de la statistique, des études et de l'international
Contributions to the annual growth of the domestic resources included in M3
Contribution of monetary counterparts to the annual 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 28 May 2024