Khaberni - The Central Bank of Jordan announced that it has launched a package of proactive precautionary measures aimed at enhancing the resilience of the national economy, with a total volume reaching 760 million dinars. These measures are particularly aimed at supporting the tourism sector, enhancing food security, and strengthening banking liquidity in light of regional and international developments. This package is distributed across the following axes:
First) Enhancing banking liquidity
The Central Bank has re-injected about 700 million dinars into the cash market by reducing the mandatory reserve ratio by two percentage points on current and on-demand deposits at banks operating in the Kingdom, now set at 5% for commercial banks and 4% for Islamic banks. This measure will provide additional liquidity to banks that is available for lending, estimated at about 300 million dinars. Moreover, as a precautionary measure, the Central Bank gradually reduced the balance of issued deposit certificates since the breakout of the Iranian-Israeli war in June 2025 from 550 million dinars to reach 150 million dinars as of 4/7/2026, resulting in re-injecting 400 million dinars of lendable liquidity into the cash market.
Second) Supporting the tourism sector
The Central Bank has provided concessional financing facilities under special terms - through banks - for tourism establishments noticeably affected by the prevailing regional conditions. These facilities, offered as part of the Central Bank's program to finance economic sectors, aim to cover operational expenses, especially the salaries of employees in these establishments, to ensure their operational continuity, preserve existing jobs, and accelerate their recovery as soon as stability is restored, until the end of 2026. The government will cover the interest/revenue due on new advances/financing granted under this measure.
Third) Enhancing food security
The Central Bank has provided concessional financing worth 60 million dinars, through banks and as part of its program to finance economic sectors, exclusively allocated for importing essential food commodities. This was done in cooperation with the Jordanian Loan Guarantee Company to cover the guarantees for advances/financing granted through banks operating in the Kingdom within the Central Bank's program for this purpose, at a rate of 85% of the value of the granted advances/financing.
Fourth: Continuing to provide concessional financing for all sectors covered within the "Central Bank Program for Financing Economic Sectors," noting that the total amount granted through this program - since its launch in 2011 until the present date - reached about 2.7 billion dinars, benefiting 3,868 projects, and contributed to providing approximately 21,000 job opportunities.
The Central Bank of Jordan affirms its continued vigilant monitoring of regional and local economic developments and its readiness to take all necessary measures to maintain monetary and financial stability in the Kingdom.
