Analytical Accounts of the Exchange Fund

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) released today (Thursday) key analytical accounts of the Exchange Fund at the end of September 2010, reporting an increase of HK$46.7 billion in the foreign assets of the Exchange Fund during the month.

Foreign assets, representing the external assets of the Exchange Fund, amounted to HK$1,997.8 billion.

The Monetary Base, comprising Certificates of Indebtedness, Government-issued currency notes and coins in circulation, the Aggregate Balance and Exchange Fund Bills and Notes issued, amounted to HK$1,032.0 billion.

Claims on the private sector in Hong Kong amounted to HK$88.2 billion.

Foreign liabilities, representing mainly obligations under repurchase agreements, amounted to HK$0.2 billion.

The analytical accounts of the Exchange Fund are released in accordance with the International Monetary Fund's Special Data Dissemination Standard (SDDS) and are referred to as the Analytical Accounts of the Central Bank under SDDS (Annex).
Release calendar

The release calendar of the Analytical Accounts of the Central Bank for 2011 is announced below:

Annex

For media enquiries, please contact:
Peggy Lo, Manager (Communications), at 2878 1687 or
Herbert Lam, Manager (Communications), at 2878 1213

Hong Kong Monetary Authority
14 October 2010

At present, four press releases relating to the Exchange Fund's data are issued by the HKMA each month. Three of these releases are issued to disseminate monetary data in accordance with the International Monetary Fund's Special Data Dissemination Standard (SDDS). The fourth press release, on the Exchange Fund's Abridged Balance Sheet and Currency Board Account, is made in accordance with the HKMA's policy of maintaining a high level of transparency. For the month of October 2010, the scheduled dates for issuing the press releases are as follows: