UAE banking sector assets top AED5.3 trillion as CBUAE report highlights financial system resilience

UAE banking sector assets top AED5.3 trillion as CBUAE report highlights financial system resilience

Abu Dhabi: The Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE) has issued its Financial Stability Report 2025, highlighting the strength and resilience of the UAE's financial and banking system, supported by solid economic performance, strong capitalisation, ample liquidity and continued growth in lending and deposits.The report showed that total assets of the UAE banking sector increased by 17.1% to reach AED5.3 trillion by the end of 2025.The sector's loan po…

UAE banking system's total assets rise to USD 1.4 trillion, says central bank report

Asset quality indicators continued to improve, with the non-performing loan (NPL) ratio declining to 3.3% in 2025, compared to 4.7% in 2024 and 8.2% in 2020.

CBUAE Stability Report Flags Growth in Aani, Jaywan Payment Platforms

The Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE) issued its Financial Stability Report 2025. The report points to a resilient banking system alongside continued progress on the country’s digital payment infrastructure. It credited the UAE’s positive economic performance and the banking sector’s robust capitalisation, liquidity, and profitability for the overall stability picture. UAE banking system assets grew 17.1% to AED 5.3 trillion by the end of 2025. Th…

UAE Digital Dirham Set to Reshape Banking, Payments and Cross-Border Transactions

The answer reaches from customer wallets to international trade settlement The next chapter of UAE banking may begin not with a new bank, card or app, but with a new form of the dirham itself. The Digital Dirham promises to make sovereign money programmable and instantly transferable, raising a much bigger question: What happens when central bank money begins moving at the speed of the digital economy? Money changes shape The Digital Dirham is n…