Central Bank has disbursed 33,000 million pesos from liquidity program

Santo Domingo.- The Central Bank of the Dominican Republic (BCRD) reported this Sunday that, as of July 17, 2025, 33,000 million pesos have been disbursed from the liquidity program of 81 billion approved in June 2025 by the Monetary Board, for different sectors through financial intermediation institutions (banks).

The institution stated in a press release that the total amount was made up of reserve requirement release measures for 64 billion pesos -50 billion new and 14 billion from previous measures- and 17 billion pesos in deferrals for 6 months of maturities of rapid liquidity facilities (FLR). The disbursed amount of 33 billion pesos is composed of RD$19,508 million in legal reserve releases and RD$13,441 million in postponements of maturities of rapid liquidity facilities from the amount of RD$17 billion. The information assured that this has allowed final debtors to maintain their credits for an additional period of six months and an interest rate of up to 9% per annum, avoiding higher financial costs for their productive activities, especially in commerce, construction, manufacturing and micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs). Similarly, the resources disbursed from legal reserve have been channeled to the following sectors: commerce (RD$9,289 million), construction (RD$4,893 million), manufacturing (RD$1,622 million), export (RD$644 million), agriculture (RD$437 million) and MSMEs (RD$603 million). Likewise, some RD$2,020 million have been allocated towards mortgage loans for the acquisition of housing. It is important to note that the liquidity provision measures implemented by the BCRD through the rapid liquidity facilities and the releases of legal reserve requirements, in addition to contributing to boost economic activities, in a context of price stability, promote greater financial and social inclusion, assured the regulatory institution. In that order, he highlighted that in the most recent publication of the Global Findex 2025, the World Bank reports that the Dominican Republic has increased the percentage of adults with financial accounts, going from 51% in 2021 to 65% in 2024, which represents an increase of 14 percentage points. This progress earned a particular mention among the countries that achieved an increase of more than two digits in this indicator. This means that 65 out of every 100 Dominicans over 15 years old have financial accounts, which is in line with the financial inclusion goal established in the National Financial Inclusion Strategy 2022-2030, the Central Bank pointed out.