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Template on international reserves and foreign currency liquidity

  1. Official reserve assets and other foreign currency assets
  2. Predetermined short-term net drains on foreign currency assets
  3. Contingent short-term net drains on foreign currency assets
  4. Memo items

Eurosystem: End-March 2019

First release: 15 April 2019. Updated: 16 September 2019

I. Official reserve assets and other foreign currency assets
(approximate market value, EUR millions)
A. Official reserve assets 741,136
1. Foreign currency reserves
(in convertible foreign currencies)
259,667
(1a) Securities 219,765
of which: issuer headquartered in the euro area 105
(1b) total currency and deposits with: 39,902
(i) other national central banks, BIS and IMF 31,751
(ii) banks headquartered in the euro area and located abroad 246
(iii) banks headquartered and located outside the euro area 7,904
2. IMF reserve position 22,258
3. SDRs 52,751
4. Gold
(including gold deposits and gold swapped)
400,798
-volume in millions of fine troy ounces 346.541
5. Other reserve assets 5,662
-financial derivatives −103
-loans to nonbank nonresidents 5,668
-other 97
B. Other foreign currency assets 20,071
-securities not included in official reserve assets 7,252
-deposits not included in official reserve assets 12,980
-loans not included in official reserve assets 17
-financial derivatives not included in official reserve assets −203
-gold not included in official reserve assets ...
-other 25
II. Predetermined short-term net drains on foreign currency assets (nominal value, EUR millions)
  Total Maturity breakdown (residual maturity)
  Up to 1 month More than 1 and
up to 3 months
More than 3 months
and up to 1 year
1. Foreign currency loans, securities, and deposits −1,179 −1,186 1 6
-outflows (-) Principal −1,184 −1,184 ... ...
-outflows (-) Interest −17 −2 −4 −11
-inflows (+) Principal ... ... ... ...
-inflows (+) Interest 22 ... 5 17
2. Aggregate short and long positions in forwards and futures in foreign currencies vis-à-vis the domestic currency
(including the forward leg of currency swaps)
−17,213 −7,691 −4,845 −4,677
(2a) Short positions (-) −25,926 −11,588 −8,275 −6,063
(2b) Long positions (+) 8,712 3,897 3,430 1,385
3. Other (specify) −18,528 −14,160 222 −4,591
-outflows related to repos (-) −9,677 −5,086 ... −4,591
-inflows related to reverse repos (+) ... ... ... ...
-trade credit (-) ... ... ... ...
-trade credit (+) ... ... ... ...
-other accounts payable (-) −12,018 −11,472 −546 ...
-other accounts receivable (+) 3,167 2,398 768 1
III. Contingent short-term net drains on foreign currency assets (nominal value, EUR millions)
  Total Maturity breakdown (residual maturity)
  Up to 1 month More than 1 and
up to 3 months
More than 3 months
and up to 1 year
1. Contingent liabilities in foreign currency ... ... ... ...
(1a) Collateral guarantees on debt falling due within 1 year ... ... ... ...
(1b) Other contingent liabilities ... ... ... ...
2. Foreign currency securities issued with embedded options
(puttable bonds)
...      
3. Undrawn, unconditional credit lines        
3_1 Undrawn, unconditional credit lines provided by: ... ... ... ...
(3_1 a) other national monetary authorities, BIS, IMF, and other international organizations ... ... ... ...
-other national monetary authorities (+) ... ... ... ...
-BIS (+) ... ... ... ...
-IMF (+) ... ... ... ...
(3_1 b) banks and other financial institutions headquartered in the reporting country (+) ... ... ... ...
(3_1 c) banks and other financial institutions headquartered outside the reporting country (+) ... ... ... ...
3_2 Undrawn, unconditional credit lines provided to: ... ... ... ...
(3_2a) other national monetary authorities, BIS, IMF, and other international organizations ... ... ... ...
-other national monetary authorities (-) ... ... ... ...
-BIS (-) ... ... ... ...
-IMF (-) ... ... ... ...
(3_2b) banks and other financial institutions headquartered in reporting country (-) ... ... ... ...
(3_2c) banks and other financial institutions headquartered outside the reporting country (-) ... ... ... ...
4. Aggregate short and long positions of options in foreign currencies vis-à-vis the domestic currency 50 50 ... ...
(4a) Short positions ... ... ... ...
(i) Bought puts ... ... ... ...
(ii) Written calls ... ... ... ...
(4b) Long positions 50 50 ... ...
(i) Bought calls ... ... ... ...
(ii) Written puts 50 50 ... ...
PRO MEMORIA: In-the-money options        
(1) At current exchange rates 52 52 ... ...
(1a) Short position ... ... ... ...
(1b) Long position 52 52 ... ...
(2) + 5 % (depreciation of 5%) ... ... ... ...
(2a) Short position ... ... ... ...
(2b) Long position ... ... ... ...
(3) - 5 % (appreciation of 5%) ... ... ... ...
(3a) Short position ... ... ... ...
(3b) Long position ... ... ... ...
(4) +10 % (depreciation of 10%) ... ... ... ...
(4a) Short position ... ... ... ...
(4b) Long position ... ... ... ...
(5) - 10 % (appreciation of 10%) ... ... ... ...
(5a) Short position ... ... ... ...
(5b) Long position ... ... ... ...
(6) Other (specify) ... ... ... ...
(6a) Short position ... ... ... ...
(6b) Long position ... ... ... ...
IV. Memo items (EUR millions)
1. Short-term domestic currency debt indexed to the exchange rate ...
2. Financial instruments denominated in foreign currency and settled by other means
(e_g_, in domestic currency)
17
-nondeliverable forwards ...
-short positions ...
-long positions ...
-other instruments 17
3. Pledged assets 248
-included in reserve assets 248
-included in other foreign currency assets ...
4. Securities lent and on repo −1,170
-lent or repoed and included in Section I −10,673
-lent or repoed but not included in Section I ...
-borrowed or acquired and included in Section I ...
-borrowed or acquired but not included in Section I 9,503
5. Financial derivative assets (net, marked to market) −305
-forwards −45
-futures 1
-swaps −260
-options ...
-other −1
6. Derivatives (forward, futures, or options contracts) that have a residual maturity greater than one year, which are subject to margin calls_ −112
-aggregate short and long positions in forwards and futures in foreign currencies vis-à-vis the domestic currency
(including the forward leg of currency swaps)
−112
(6a) short positions (-) −112
(6b) long positions (+) ...
-aggregate short and long positions of options in foreign currencies vis-à-vis the domestic currency ...
(6a) short positions ...
(i) bought puts ...
(ii) written calls ...
(6b) long positions ...
(i) bought calls ...
(ii) written puts ...
7. Currency composition of reserves 741,136
- currencies in SDR basket 716,193
- currencies not in SDR basket 24,942

Conventions used in the tables: "..." nil or negligible.