Saudi Arabia accounts for 41% of Gulf banks’ loans, amounting to $869 billion
Saudi Arabia topped the Gulf countries in total loans provided by Loansprovided by commercial banks in Saudi Arabiain December 2025, about $869.4 billion.
The report stated that the UAE came in second place with 25.4% of the total local loans to the Gulf Cooperation Council countries in December 2025, while Qatar came in third place with 17.8% of the total.
The report indicated that Kuwait came in fourth place with 9.5%, followed by the Sultanate of Oman. With 4.3%, while Bahrain ranked sixth with 1.6% of the total loans provided by commercial banks last December.
Assets of commercial banks
The total assets/liabilities of commercial banks in the Gulf Cooperation Council reached $3.9 trillion in December 2025, while Saudi Arabia acquired 33.5%.
According to the report, the total assets/liabilities of commercial banks in Saudi Arabia amounted to about $1.3 trillion out of the total assets in the countries. Gulf.
The UAE came in first place with a ratio of assets/liabilities of commercial banks estimated at 36.8%, while it came in third place with a ratio of 15%, while Kuwait came in fourth place with a ratio of 8.5%.
The report stated that the Sultanate of Oman came in fifth place for assets/liabilities of commercial banks with a ratio of 3.2%, followed by Bahrain with a ratio of 3%.
Foreign assets
mentioned The report stated that the total foreign assets of the central banks in the Gulf Cooperation Council amounted to 0.9 trillion dollars, topped by Saudi Arabia with a percentage of 52.5% last December.
The total foreign assets in the Saudi Central Bank amounted to about 0.47 trillion dollars, while the UAE came in second place with a percentage of 337%, followed by Qatar with a percentage of 6.9%.
Kuwait came in fourth place with a percentage of 4.1% of the total foreign assets in the Gulf central banks, while The Sultanate of Oman ranked fifth with 2.2%, and Bahrain with 0.5%.
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