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Consolidated financial statement of the Eurosystem as at 19 January 2024
23 January 2024
In the week ending 19 January 2024 the net position of the Eurosystem in foreign currency (asset items 2 and 3 minus liability items 7, 8 and 9) increased by EUR 1.4 billion to EUR 316.7 billion.
As a result of the Eurosystem’s open market operations and standing facilities, net lending to credit institutions (asset item 5 minus liability items 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5 and 4) rose by EUR 62.8 billion to ‑EUR 3,102.2 billion. This was due primarily to the change in the level of the deposit facility (liability item 2.2).
Base money (liability items 1, 2.1 and 2.2) decreased by EUR 41.8 billion to EUR 5,215.3 billion.
The table below provides the detailed breakdown of securities held for monetary policy purposes (asset item 7.1) into the different portfolios. All portfolios are accounted for at amortised cost.
Table 1
Monetary policy securities portfolios | Reported value as at 19 January 2024 | Weekly change – purchases [1] | Weekly change – redemptions |
Securities Markets Programme | EUR 2.4 billion | - | - |
Covered bond purchase programme 3 | EUR 283.4 billion | - | -EUR 1.3 billion |
Asset-backed securities purchase programme | EUR 13.2 billion | - | -EUR 0.1 billion |
Public sector purchase programme | EUR 2,385.3 billion | - | -EUR 14.3 billion |
Corporate sector purchase programme | EUR 321.6 billion | - | -EUR 1.6 billion |
Pandemic emergency purchase programme | EUR 1,665.4 billion | +EUR 5.5 billion | -EUR 10.3 billion |
[1] With the discontinuation of the reinvestments under the asset purchase programme, this column may sometimes show negative amounts. These are expected to be infrequent and would result from sales of securities conducted, for instance, for risk management purposes.
The content and format of the weekly financial statement are set out in Annexes IV to VI of Guideline (EU) 2016/2249 of the European Central Bank of 3 November 2016 on the legal framework for accounting and financial reporting in the European System of Central Banks (ECB/2016/34).
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