Tentative issuance schedule for Exchange Fund Bills and Notes

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14 Nov 2003

Tentative issuance schedule for Exchange Fund Bills and Notes

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) issued today (Friday) a tentative issuance schedule for Exchange Fund Bills and Notes (EFBN) for the coming quarter of January to March 2004. The schedule contains information on the tentative tender dates, tender sizes and issue dates of individual issues.

The quarterly schedule is issued in the second month of each quarter (i.e. February, May, August and November), covering the EFBN tenders in the following quarter.

Since the fourth quarter of 2002, the HKMA has started rolling over all 3-year Exchange Fund Notes (EFN) through the reopening of 5-year EFN with remaining maturity of 38 months. Successful bidders of a reopened issue have to pay to the HKMA the respective bid price plus an amount equal to the interest accrued from the last coupon payment date to the allotment date of the reopened issue.

During the first quarter of 2004, up to HK$120 million of the 3-year and 2-year EFN, tentatively scheduled to be tendered on 9 January 2004 and on 10 February 2004 respectively, will be made available for public subscription through non-competitive tender.

It should be noted that the tender dates, tender sizes and issue dates projected in the advance issuance schedule are tentative. The details of new issues of Exchange Fund Bills are to be confirmed and announced at least four business days prior to the respective tender dates. The details of new issues of EFN are to be confirmed and announced seven business days prior to their respective tender dates. The HKMA may make changes in the light of prevailing market conditions.

For further enquiries, please contact:

Kevin Ip, Manager (Press), at 2878 1687 or
Thomas Chan, Senior Manager (Press), at 2878 1480

Hong Kong Monetary Authority
14 November 2003

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