BANK OF FINLAND - Official reserve assets, other foreign currency assets and related short-term liabilities

Official reserve assets, other foreign currency assets and related short-term liabilities: March 2012

(EUR millions)

This table shows the national contributions to the outstanding amounts of the Eurosystem's international reserves and related assets and liabilities. These figures do not fully add up to the total international reserves owing to differences in gold valuation. For more information, please refer to the publication entitled:

"Statistical treatment of the Eurosystem's international reserves" (October 2000), (PDF, 1.3 MB).


	Euro area (1)	ECB	AT	BE	CY (3)	DE	EE	ES	FI	FR	GR (2)	IE	IT	LU	MT (4)	NL	PT	SI (5)	SK (6)
1 Official reserve assets and other foreign currency assets (approximate market value)
1.1 Official reserve assets	671,257	59,440	19,800	22,845	907	186,628	212	35,977	8,098	134,174	5,434	1,285	135,179	784	512	40,230	16,827	710	1,886
1.1.1 Foreign currency reserves (in convertible foreign currencies)	155,690	38,632	5,584	6,107	140	28,674	119	19,312	4,166	19,245	48	2	25,423	146	333	7,252	300	198	13
1.1.1.1 Securities	143,596	37,220	4,062	5,582	137	25,669	78	18,791	3,692	17,747	23	1	23,278	112	283	6,429	295	197	3
1.1.1.2 Total currency and deposits	12,094	1,412	1,522	525	3	3,005	41	521	474	1,497	25	1	2,144	34	51	823	6	1	11
1.1.1.2.1 With other national central banks, BIS and IMF	4,539	819	422	303	0	650	10	507	51	291	9	1	945	34	11	469	6	1	11
1.1.1.2.2 With banks headquartered in the euro area and located abroad	1,551	172	0	18	0	993	0	2	38	35	0		293	0	0	0	0	0	0
1.1.1.2.3 With banks headquartered and located outside the euro area	6,004	421	1,100	204	3	1,362	30	12	385	1,171	16	0	906	0	40	354	0	0	0
1.1.2 IMF reserve position	30,863	0	1,065	2,732	95	8,459	8	2,312	669	6,229	279	300	4,659	266	54	3,056	315	142	222
1.1.3 SDRs	52,536	650	1,962	4,849	115	13,719	72	3,095	1,301	11,051	642	743	6,974	283	106	5,435	920	242	377
1.1.4 Gold (including gold deposits and gold swapped)	431,741	20,093	11,194	9,093	556	135,777	10	11,258	1,960	97,363	4,465	240	98,123	90	12	24,485	15,291	127	1,274
1.1.4.1 Volume in millions of fine troy ounces	346.847	16.142	9.002	7.313	0.446	109.194	0.008	9.054	1.580	78.301	3.591	0.193	78.829	0.072	0.010	19.691	12.297	0.102	1.022
1.1.5 Other reserve assets	426	66	-4	64	1	0	3	0	1	287	0	0	0	0	7	2	0	0	0
1.1.5.1 of which financial derivatives	138	66	-4	64	0	0	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	7	2	0	0	0
1.2 Other foreign currency assets	55,220	4,927	3,906	4,878	364	8,897	33	1,372	296	21,995	384	2,695	2,846	1,220	251	481	312	278	84
1.2.1 Securities not included in official reserve assets	9,863	0	427	181	364	0	27	0	287	7,585	0	13	284	0	91		311	209	84
1.2.2 Deposits not included in official reserve assets	44,843	4,841	3,477	4,660	1	8,897	6	1,273	8	14,410	93	2,680	2,577	1,221	157	477	0	65	0
1.2.3 Loans not included in official reserve assets	291	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	291	0	0	0	0		0	0	0
1.2.4 Financial derivatives not included in official reserve assets	223	86	2	37	0	0	0	100	1	0	0	1	-15	-1	3	4	1	3	0
2 Predetermined short-term net drains on foreign currency assets (nominal value)
2.1 Foreign currency loans, securities and deposits	-965	0		0	-11	-7	0	0	0	0	0		-2	-638	-168	0	-74	0	-64
2.2 Aggregates short and long position in forwards and futures in foreign currencies vis-à-vis the domestic currency (including the forward leg of currency swaps)	-30,482	86	-3,939	-9,450	0	-8,909	-109	-973	-221	-1,730	0	-2,680	-1,503	-603	-450	0	0	-201	0
2.3 Other	-11,025	-176	0	-2,268	-5	-158	-27	-1	-148	-6,414	0	0	-1,730	0	0	-75	0	-22	0

Source: European Central Bank

(1) Euro area data cover the EU member states that had adopted the euro at the time to which the statistics relate.
(2) Greek data are included in euro area aggregates as of January 2001.
(3) Cypriot data are included in euro area aggregates as of January 2008.
(4) Maltese data are included in euro area aggregates as of January 2008.
(5) Slovenian data are included in euro area aggregates as of January 2007.
(6) Slovakian data are included in euro area aggregates as of January 2009.

Sources

The table below indicates the sources of data and the corresponding user support hotlines. For questions referring to the euro area aggregates, please contact the European Central Bank. For questions referring to any national dataset, please contact the relevant national institutions.


Code	Country	Source	Contact
	Euro Area	European Central Bank	statistics@ecb.europa.eu
AT	Austria	Oesterreichische Nationalbank	statistik.hotline@oenb.at
BE	Belgium	Nationale Bank van België/Banque Nationale de Belgique	datashop@nbb.be
CY	Cyprus	Central Bank of Cyprus	statistics-cy@centralbank.gov.cy
DE	Germany	Deutsche Bundesbank	Reserves-Template@bundesbank.de
EE	Estonia	Eesti Pank	ecbdata.bop@eestipank.ee
ES	Spain	Banco de España	bal.pagos@bde.es
FI	Finland	Suomen Pankki – Finlands Bank	balanceofpayments@bof.fi
FR	France	Banque de France	bdp.dif@banque-france.fr
GR	Greece	Bank of Greece	bop-ecb@bankfogreece.gr
IT	Italy	Banca d'Italia	statistiche@bancaditalia.it
LU	Luxembourg	Banque centrale du Luxembourg	info@bcl.lu
MT	Malta	Central Bank of Malta	statistics@centralbankmalta.com
NL	Netherlands	De Nederlandsche Bank	info@dnb.nl
PT	Portugal	Banco de Portugal	distat@bportugal.pt
SI	Slovenia	Banka Slovenije	fs@bsi.si
SK	Slovakia	Národná banka Slovenska	nbs.statistics@nbs.sk

Report updated 30 Apr 2012

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