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Guernsey Releases Bank Deposit Figures,
by Amanda Banks, Tax-News.com, London
Tuesday, March 09, 2010
Guernsey’s banking sector is in a more positive position than the continuing
decline in deposit levels might suggest, according the head of the promotional
agency for the Island’s finance industry.
Figures from the Guernsey Financial Services Commission (GFSC) show that the
value of Guernsey bank deposits fell by 2.3% during the final quarter of last
year.
This took the total value of deposits to GBP177.4bn at the end of December 2009
– a 25.2% decrease from twelve months previously.
However, Peter Niven, Chief Executive of Guernsey Finance, believes that the
sector is better placed than the top-level analysis initially seems to indicate:
“What we can see is that a year ago the global financial downturn and
an associated flight to quality were pushing deposit figures to a peak. Since
then, there has been a decline in the deposit base as a result of returning
confidence within the investor markets coupled with a very low interest rate
environment.”
“Indeed, it is within this context that we have seen a consistent fall
of Swiss fiduciary deposits in particular. The performance of this one product,
especially more recently, has been driving the decline in overall deposits and
in fact, has to some extent been masking wider improvements in the sector. For
example, within this last quarter of 2009, other deposits – excluding
Swiss fiduciary deposits – actually increased in value albeit only slightly.”
“Therefore, the picture is more positive than it might first appear and
in fact what we have seen during the last two quarters is increased stability
of deposit levels which now sit at more sustainable levels.”
Analysis of the figures from the final quarter of last year shows that the
main reason for the fall in deposits was the continued contraction of Swiss
fiduciary deposits, down from GBP44.8bn at the end of September 2009 to GBP41.8bn
at the end of December 2009, Niven noted.
In addition, other deposits – excluding Swiss fiduciary deposits –
increased slightly from GBP75.3bn at the end of September 2009 to GBP75.6bn
at the end of December 2009.
The reported total deposit figures were impacted to some extent by the strengthening
of sterling against the major currencies. This exchange rate effect also led
to some differences in the overall currency mix with sterling deposits increasing
to 23.9%, Swiss Franc deposits up to 3.8%, US Dollars stable at 46.3% and Euros
decreasing to 23.3%.
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