5.3 Liquidity risk

Liquidity risk

Liquidity risk is the risk that the Group will encounter difficulty in meeting its obligations from financial liabilities. The Group’s approach to managing liquidity is to ensure, as far as possible, that it will always have sufficient liquidity to meet its liabilities when due, under both normal and stressed conditions, without incurring unacceptable losses or risking damage to the Group’s reputation. Typically, the Group ensures that it has sufficient cash on demand to meet expected operational expenses, including the servicing of financial obligations; this excludes the potential impact of extreme circumstances that cannot reasonably be predicted, such as natural disasters.

  1. Analysis of financial assets and financial liabilities by remaining contractual maturities

The table below summarizes the maturity profile of the Group’s assets and liabilities at 31 December 2023 based on contractual maturities.

 

 

Less than 3 months   3 months to less than 1 year   1 year to 5 years   Over 5 years   Total
  AED’000   AED’000   AED’000   AED’000   AED’000
ASSETS                  
Cash and balances with UAE Central Bank 220,670       220,670
Due from banks and financial institutions 74,779         74,779
Loans and advances 839,946   159,391   669,222   207,111   1,875,670
Islamic financing and investing assets 12,460   245   1,435     14,140
Investments, including associate 72,918   6,462   130,264   44,916   254,560
Insurance receivables and contract assets 85,559   11,198   10,575     107,332
Other assets 16,048       30,942   46,990
Financial assets 1,322,380   177,296   811,496   282,969   2,594,141
Non-financial assets   47,212   38,346   85,823   171,381
Total assets 1,322,380   224,508   849,842   368,792   2,765,522

 

LIABILITIES                  
Due to banks 32,795         32,795
Customers’ deposits and margin accounts 966,900   265,075   330,714     1,562,689
Short term borrowings and medium-term loans   223,333   25,000     248,333
Insurance and Reinsurance Contract Liabilities 173,026         173,026
Other liabilities 33,121   10,467   16,976     60,564
Financial liabilities 1,205,842   498,875   372,690     2,077,407
Non-financial liabilities 26,189         26,189
Total liabilities 1,232,031   498,875   372,690     2,103,596

 

Off balance sheet                  
Contingent liabilities 372,853   23,910   3,923     400,686
Commitments 4,249       4,249
Total 377,102   23,910   3,923     404,935

The maturity profile of the Group’s assets and liabilities at 31 December 2022 was as follows:

 

 

 

Less than 3 months   3 months to less than 1 year   1 year to 5 years   Over 5 years   Total
  AED’000   AED’000   AED’000   AED’000   AED’000
ASSETS                  
Cash and balances with U.A.E. Central Bank 370,699         370,699
Due from banks and financial institutions 395,788         395,788
Loans and advances 1,239,519   286,006   475,623     2,001,148
Islamic financing and investing assets 15,887   960   5,789     22,636
Investments, including associate 200,666   17,079   133,215     350,960
Insurance receivables and contract assets 90,834   11,198   10,575     112,607
Other assets 22,914         22,914
Financial assets 2,336,307   315,243   625,202     3,276,752
Non-financial assets   48,559   109,769   6,705   165,033
Total assets 2,336,307   363,802   734,971   6,705   3,441,785

 

LIABILITIES                  
Due to banks 30,059         30,059
Customers’ deposits and margin accounts 1,564,210   339,902   156,562     2,060,674
Short term borrowings and medium-term loans 116,667   231,667   58,333     406,667
Insurance and Reinsurance Contract Liabilities 200,538         200,538
Lease liabilities   537       537
Other liabilities 7,398   23,844       31,242
Financial liabilities 1,918,872   595,950   214,895     2,729,717
Non-financial liabilities 27,677       14,371   42,048
Total liabilities 1,946,549   595,950   214,895   14,371   2,771,765

 

Off balance sheet                  
Contingent liabilities 458,406   32,181   14,642     505,229
Commitments 4,249         4,249
Total 462,655   32,181   14,642     509,478

The amounts in the table above have been compiled as follows:

 

Type of financial instrument Basis on which amounts are compiled
Non-derivative financial liabilities and financial assets Undiscounted cash flows, which include estimated interest payments
Issued financial guarantee contracts and contingent liabilities and commitments. Earliest possible contractual maturity. For issued financial guarantee contracts, the maximum amount of the guarantee is allocated to the earliest period in which the guarantee could be called.