Monetary developments 2021Aug

Overnight deposits growth falls slightly

On an annual basis, the growth of the overnight deposits decreases slightly in August 2021 and stands at + 8.3% (down from + 8.7% in July and + 8.5% in June 2021).

The growth in the M2 - M1 aggregate picks up in August to + 6.9% year-on-year (up from + 6.4% in July and 6.3% in June), due to the smaller decline in deposits with agreed maturity of up to 2 years (- 3.0%, up from - 7.2% in July).

The annual growth of the M3-M2 aggregate increases slightly in August (+ 1.7%, up from + 1.3% in July and + 3.6% in June), the slowdown in investments in MMF shares in August (+ 7.6%, down from + 9.9%) being more than offset by the smaller decrease in debt securities issued with a maturity of up to 2 years and in repurchase agreements (- 11.0% and - 20.2% respectively in August).

After taking into account gross monetary external liabilities vis-à-vis other monetary union members, the growth of the French component of euro area monetary aggregate M3 increases slightly in August 2021 (+ 8.2% year-on-year, up from + 8.0% in July and + 7.8% in June 2021).

France : monetary resources of Monetary Financial Institutions
Outstandings (in € Bn) (a) Annual growth rate (in %) (a)
Aug-2021 Jun-2021 Jul-21 Aug-2021
Overnight deposits 1,483 8.5 8.7 8.3
= Domestic resources included in M1 1,483 8.5 8.7 8.3
Domestic resources included in M1, 3-month moving average 9.9 8.6 8.5
Deposits with agreed maturity of up to 2 years 115 -8.2 -7.2 -3.0
+ Saving accounts 808 8.8 8.7 8.5
= Domestic resources included in M2-M1 923 6.3 6.4 6.9
Domestic resources included in M2-M1, 3-month moving average 7.7 6.9 6.5
MMF shares 263 11.7 9.9 7.6
+ Repurchase agreements 31 -13.0 -27.4 -20.2
+ Debt securities issued with a maturity of up to 2 years 42 -18.7 -15.0 -11.0
= Domestic resources included in M3-M2 337 3.6 1.3 1.7
Domestic resources included in M3-M2, 3-month moving average 7.5 4.4 2.2
Sum of domestic resources included in M3 2,742 7.2 7.0 7.0
Sum of domestic resources included in M3 , 3-month moving average 8.9 7.5 7.0
+ Monetary external liabilities vis-à-vis other monetary union members 271 12.8 17.1 20.7
- Monetary external assets vis-à-vis other monetary union members 46 -4.2 -4.6 -1.0
= French component of euro area monetary aggregate M3 2,967 7.8 8.0 8.2
French component of euro area monetary aggregate M3, 3-month moving average 9.5 8.3 8.0
(a) Seasonally-adjusted data.
Source : Banque de France
Contributions to the growth of the French component of M3
(Annual growth rate in %)
Additional information
The outstanding amount of monetary claims (excluding coins and banknotes) consists of claims with an initial maturity of up to and including 2 years that monetary counterparts (basically households, non-financial corporations, general government excluding central government, insurance corporations, non-money market funds, investment funds and financial vehicle corporations) hold against monetary financial institutions (deposit-taking institutions, sociétés de financement under French law, Caisse des dépôts et consignations, MMF and the central bank).
Saving accounts include regulated saving accounts, i.e. livrets A, livrets de développement durable, comptes d'épargne logement, livrets d'épargne populaire, and non-regulated saving accounts, i.e. livrets jeunes and livrets ordinaires. One part of the amounts held on regulated saving accounts is transferred by deposit-taking institutions to a fund managed by the Caisse des dépôts et consignations; the other part remains in banks' balance sheets. Debt securities with maturity of up to 2 years mainly include certificates of deposit (short term paper) issued by French deposit-taking institutions and subscribed by neither MMF nor deposit-taking institutions counterparts.
Annual growth rates are adjusted for reclassifications and revaluations but not for foreign exchange rate effects.

With this publication, the method of seasonal adjustment (SA) of money aggregates has been revised, resulting in small revisions (for example, the annual growth rate of resident resources included in M1 is +8.3% in August 2021, compared to 8.6% with the old method). The changes consist in switching to the X13-ARIMA method, instead of TRAMO-SEATS, and in adjusting the sum of the twelve monthly seasonally adjusted flows of a calendar year to the annual sum of gross flows.
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