I.  Overview of the UAE banking system  BIS central bankers’ speeches  1  If I may switch now to talk about one of the subjects this meeting will discuss namely: SIBs or D-SIBs, it will be worthwhile to work on a framework to identify D-SIBs in the region at the first stage.
Loans to the household sector are also growing, albeit at a low single-digit pace, with microlending activity particularly weak. Following a long period of negligible growth, the pace of increase in mortgage credit has started to firm in recent months. With global interest rates still relatively low, share prices continued to rally.