Broad M2 money supply grew 9.4% from a year earlier, central bank data showed on Monday, below estimates of 9.6% forecast in the Reuters poll. It rose 10.1% in February.
Analysts polled by Reuters had predicted new yuan loans would jump to 3.5 trillion yuan in January, up from 1.26 trillion yuan in the previous month and 3.34 trillion yuan a year earlier.