August 2026: Retail Deposits +6.18 % Nominal While the Demand Share Fell to 34.08 %, Current-Account Closures 0.62 % → 0.91 % Led by the 18–25 Band, Card Issuance +18.40 % on the Mobile Channel
Assumptions strip
Month-over-month comparison (August vs July 2026) was used because amounts in this model are nominal and not inflation-adjusted; ratios carry the reading. Balance ratios are point-in-time at month-end. Loan-book metrics are outside this agent's scope and do not appear.
The retail deposit base grew 6.18 % in August in nominal terms, but the growth was time deposits (+13.63 %) while demand deposits fell 5.78 %, taking the demand share from 38.41 % to 34.08 %. Current-account closures rose from 0.62 % to 0.91 % of the opening base, with the 18–25 age band closing at 1.84 % and carrying 28.70 % of the closures on 14.20 % of the base; 61.00 % of closures carry the uninformative reason customer request. Card issuance rose 18.40 %, all of it and more through the mobile channel, which now issues 66.93 % of cards; whether the cards are used is not in the model. A sentence attributing the deposit shift to the bank's time-deposit rate was returned once by the claim check; the rewrite states the shift without a cause and passed, because the rate is not in the model.
— Run: monthly, the workspace's approved model, data complete through 2026-09-01. Guard Ledger: held 0 after one coached rewrite — candidate f-01 draft carried drawn by the new time-deposit rate, gate 4 returned it as unevidenced causality, the rewrite dropped the clause and passed; not_selected 0; duplicate 0.