Consolidated financial statement of the Eurosystem as at 11 October 2013
Items not related to monetary policy operations
In the week ending 11 October 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 0.1 billion to EUR 207.3 billion on account of customer and portfolio transactions and US dollar liquidity-providing operations (see below).
US dollar liquidity operations
Date | Type of transaction | Maturing amount | New amount |
10 October 2013 | 84-day US dollar liquidity-providing reverse transaction | USD 27 million | - |
10 October 2013 | 85-day US dollar liquidity-providing reverse transaction | - | USD 113 million |
The liquidity-providing transactions were conducted by the Eurosystem 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 0.2 billion to EUR 353.1 billion. Banknotes in circulation (liability item 1) decreased by EUR 1.6 billion to EUR 920.1 billion. Liabilities to general government (liability item 5.1) decreased by EUR 3.2 billion to EUR 73.4 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) decreased by EUR 6.3 billion to EUR 512.4 billion. On Wednesday, 9 October 2013, a main refinancing operation of EUR 94.5 billion matured and a new one of EUR 93.4 billion, with a maturity of one week, was settled. On the same day, fixed-term deposits in an amount of EUR 187.5 billion matured and new deposits were collected in the amount of EUR 188 billion, with a maturity of one week.
During the week, a longer-term refinancing operation of EUR 3.4 billion matured and a new one of EUR 3.4 billion was settled, while EUR 7.7 billion of longer-term refinancing operations was repaid before maturity.
Recourse to the marginal lending facility (asset item 5.5) was EUR 0.3 billion (compared with EUR 0.1 billion in the preceding week), while recourse to the deposit facility (liability item 2.2) was EUR 52.6 billion (compared with EUR 55.3 billion in the preceding week).
The holdings by the Eurosystem of securities held for monetary policy purposes (asset item 7.1) decreased by EUR 0.4 billion to EUR 246.6 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 11 October 2013 the value of accumulated purchases under the Securities Markets Programme amounted to EUR 188.2 billion, while the values of the portfolios held under the first and second covered bond purchase programmes totalled EUR 42.8 billion and EUR 15.5 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 2.7 billion to EUR 268 billion.
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