According to Banque Du Liban (BDL) statistics, the combined balance sheet of investment banks operating in Lebanon widened by 3.49% (LBP 2,838.88 billion) during the first nine months of 2025 to LBP 84,207 billion, up from LBP 81,368 billion at end of 2024. In details, the value of fixed assets soared by 74.34% (LBP 5,340.26 billion) to LBP 12,524 billion and was accompanied by some 4.17% (LBP 291.14 billion) increase in the value of other assets to LBP 7,267 billion and some 2485.08% (LBP 36.41 billion) rise in claims on the public sector to LBP 37.87 billion, which together outweighed the 19.24% (LBP 2,485.57 billion) drop in the value of the securities portfolio to LBP 10,431 billion, the 3.24% (LBP 215.69 billion) decrease in claims on the non-resident financial sector to LBP 6,438 billion, the 0.22% (LBP 68.74 billion) drop in cash and deposits with Central Banks to LBP 31,390 billion, and the 0.36% (LBP 58.92 billion) contraction in claims on the private sector (comprising resident and non-resident customers) to LBP 16,119 billion, only to name a few. On the liabilities side, investment banks’ capital accounts soared by 59.12% (LBP 8,862.70 billion) in the first nine months of 2025 to LBP 23,855 billion, and were accompanied by some 8.69% (968.28 billion) increase in other liabilities to LBP 12,116 billion and some 7.83% (LBP 639.67 billion) rise in liabilities to the non-resident financial sector to LBP 8,807 billion, which eroded the 15.84% (LBP 7,333.99 billion) decrease in private sector deposits (resident and non-resident deposits in addition to resident financial sector deposits) to LBP 38,965 billion and the 39.05% (LBP 297.77 billion) drop in liabilities to the public sector to LBP 465 billion.

Abiding by legislative decree number 50 and subsequent BDL circulars, investment banks operating in Lebanon have managed over the last couple of years to increase their lending activity to the private sector while reducing their exposure to the public sector. As a result, the surplus, representing the difference between loans to the private sector and claims on the public sector, reached LBP 16,081 billion in September 2025 compared to LBP 16,177 billion in December 2024.