The Governor of the Central Bank, Dr. Adel Sharkas, affirmed that the Jordanian economy is moving towards recovery, and is moving forward with economic reforms on several levels, which enabled it to face local and regional challenges with high competence, and respond to the requirements of the stage with great flexibility.

This came during his sponsorship today, Saturday, of the Jordanian Banking Summit for the year 2023, which was held by the Association of Banks in Jordan at its headquarters and gathered the banking leaders in the Kingdom.

Sharkas referred to the strength of the Jordanian banking system, its ability to deal with various developments, its growing active role in the national economy, and its functioning according to the highest levels of governance and good management, which made it deliver its performance effectively and highly positively in the national economy.

Dr. Nidal Al-Azzam, Executive Director of the Research Department at the Central Bank of Jordan, gave a presentation on the economic model in which he talked about the most important local and global economic and monetary indicators and their expected prospects in 2023 and 2024.

During which he reviewed the current and expected economic growth rates, inflation rates and their trends, and the trends of global and domestic interest rates.

The summit concluded its activities with a speech by the Governor of the Central Bank of Jordan, Dr. Adel Sharkas, in which he spoke about the most important local economic, financial and monetary indicators, and the directions of monetary policy and the banking sector in Jordan in the year 2023.