Consolidated financial statement of the Eurosystem as at 15 August 2014

Items not related to monetary policy operations

In the week ending 15 August 2014 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) decreased by EUR 0.1 billion to EUR 213.1 billion on account of customer and portfolio transactions and US dollar liquidity-providing operations (see below).

US dollar liquidity operations

The liquidity-providing transactions were conducted by the Eurosystem in connection with the standing swap arrangement 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) increased by EUR 1.7 billion to EUR 361.9 billion. Banknotes in circulation (liability item 1) increased by EUR 2.2 billion to EUR 975.6 billion. Liabilities to general government (liability item 5.1) decreased by EUR 8.9 billion to EUR 57.7 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 2.4 billion to EUR 481.1 billion. On Wednesday, 13 August 2014, a main refinancing operation of EUR 107.9 billion matured and a new one of EUR 108.2 billion, with a maturity of one week, was settled.

During the week, EUR 4.2 billion of longer-term refinancing operations was repaid before maturity.

Recourse to the marginal lending facility (asset item 5.5) was virtually nil (as it was in the preceding week), while recourse to the deposit facility (liability item 2.2) was EUR 19.8 billion (compared with EUR 21.1 billion in the preceding week).

The holdings by the Eurosystem of securities held for monetary policy purposes (asset item 7.1) remained unchanged at EUR 199 billion. Therefore, in the week ending 15 August 2014, the value of accumulated purchases under the Securities Markets Programme amounted to EUR 152.3 billion, while the value of the portfolios held under the first and second covered bond purchase programmes totalled EUR 32.9 billion and EUR 13.8 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 7.1 billion to EUR 221.6 billion.