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Consolidated financial statement of the Eurosystem as at 12 July 2013

16 July 2013

Items not related to monetary policy operations

In the week ending 12 July 2013 gold and gold receivables (asset item 1) remained unchanged.

The net position of the Eurosystem in foreign currency (asset items 2 and 3 minus liability items 7, 8 and 9) increased by EUR 0.2 billion to EUR 212.1 billion on account of customer and portfolio transactions. In the week ending 12 July 2013, the Eurosystem did not conduct any liquidity-providing transactions in connection with the temporary reciprocal currency arrangement (swap line) that the European Central Bank has with the Federal Reserve System.

The holdings by the Eurosystem of marketable securities other than those held for monetary policy purposes (asset item 7.2) decreased by EUR 1.1 billion to EUR 350.8 billion. Banknotes in circulation (liability item 1) increased by EUR 1.2 billion to EUR 917 billion. Liabilities to general government (liability item 5.1) decreased by EUR 5 billion to EUR 84.3 billion.

Items related to monetary policy operations

The Eurosystem’s net lending to credit institutions (asset item 5 minus liability items 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5 and 4) increased by EUR 0.7 billion to EUR 513.2 billion. On Wednesday, 10 July 2013, a main refinancing operation of EUR 107.7 billion matured and a new one of EUR 102.1 billion, with a maturity of one week, was settled. On the same day, fixed-term deposits in an amount of EUR 195 billion matured and new deposits in an amount of EUR 195.5 billion were collected, with a maturity of one week.

During the week, a longer-term refinancing operation of EUR 3.6 billion matured and a new one of EUR 3.5 billion was settled, while EUR 2.1 billion of longer-term refinancing operations was repaid before maturity.

Recourse to the marginal lending facility (asset item 5.5) was EUR 0.1 billion (compared with EUR 0.4 billion in the preceding week), while recourse to the deposit facility (liability item 2.2) was EUR 94.6 billion (compared with EUR 103.9 billion in the preceding week).

The holdings by the Eurosystem of securities held for monetary policy purposes (asset item 7.1) decreased by EUR 0.3 billion to EUR 256.1 billion. This decrease was due to the redemption of securities acquired under the first and second covered bond purchase programmes. Therefore, in the week ending 12 July 2013 the value of accumulated purchases under the Securities Markets Programme amounted to EUR 195.5 billion, while the values of the portfolios held under the first and second covered bond purchase programmes totalled EUR 44.7 billion and EUR 15.9 billion respectively. All three portfolios are accounted for on a held-to-maturity basis.

Current accounts of euro area credit institutions

As a result of all transactions, the current account position of credit institutions with the Eurosystem (liability item 2.1) increased by EUR 4.1 billion to EUR 275.3 billion.

Assets (EUR millions) Balance Difference compared with last week due to transactions
Totals/sub-totals may not add up, due to rounding
1 Gold and gold receivables 319,968 0
2 Claims on non-euro area residents denominated in foreign currency 248,288 272
2.1 Receivables from the IMF 85,309 −25
2.2 Balances with banks and security investments, external loans and other external assets 162,979 297
3 Claims on euro area residents denominated in foreign currency 26,584 162
4 Claims on non-euro area residents denominated in euro 21,623 1,198
4.1 Balances with banks, security investments and loans 21,623 1,198
4.2 Claims arising from the credit facility under ERM II 0 0
5 Lending to euro area credit institutions related to monetary policy operations denominated in euro 803,340 −8,084
5.1 Main refinancing operations 102,064 −5,631
5.2 Longer-term refinancing operations 701,141 −2,150
5.3 Fine-tuning reverse operations 0 0
5.4 Structural reverse operations 0 0
5.5 Marginal lending facility 135 −303
5.6 Credits related to margin calls 0 0
6 Other claims on euro area credit institutions denominated in euro 87,689 −4,153
7 Securities of euro area residents denominated in euro 606,940 −1,468
7.1 Securities held for monetary policy purposes 256,115 −318
7.2 Other securities 350,825 −1,150
8 General government debt denominated in euro 28,356 0
9 Other assets 260,547 −4,943
Total assets 2,403,333 −17,014
Liabilities (EUR millions) Balance Difference compared with last week due to transactions
Totals/sub-totals may not add up, due to rounding
1 Banknotes in circulation 916,981 1,212
2 Liabilities to euro area credit institutions related to monetary policy operations denominated in euro 565,472 −4,654
2.1 Current accounts (covering the minimum reserve system) 275,347 4,083
2.2 Deposit facility 94,619 −9,243
2.3 Fixed-term deposits 195,500 500
2.4 Fine-tuning reverse operations 0 0
2.5 Deposits related to margin calls 6 5
3 Other liabilities to euro area credit institutions denominated in euro 6,402 207
4 Debt certificates issued 0 0
5 Liabilities to other euro area residents denominated in euro 105,468 −4,176
5.1 General government 84,282 −4,973
5.2 Other liabilities 21,187 797
6 Liabilities to non-euro area residents denominated in euro 140,875 −4,159
7 Liabilities to euro area residents denominated in foreign currency 2,949 353
8 Liabilities to non-euro area residents denominated in foreign currency 5,535 −87
8.1 Deposits, balances and other liabilities 5,535 −87
8.2 Liabilities arising from the credit facility under ERM II 0 0
9 Counterpart of special drawing rights allocated by the IMF 54,240 0
10 Other liabilities 230,337 −5,711
11 Revaluation accounts 284,680 0
12 Capital and reserves 90,395 0
Total liabilities 2,403,333 −17,014
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