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31 Oct 2018

International Reserves and Foreign Currency Liquidity

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) released today (Wednesday) the analytical data on the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region’s foreign currency reserves and foreign currency liquidity as at the end of September 2018 (Annex). These data are published monthly in the Template on International Reserves and Foreign Currency Liquidity in accordance with the International Monetary Fund’s Special Data Dissemination Standard.

Release Calendar

The release calendar of the Template on International Reserves and Foreign Currency Liquidity for 2019 is announced below:

Reference Month	Release Date
January 2019	28 February 2019
February 2019	29 March 2019
March 2019	30 April 2019
April 2019	31 May 2019
May 2019	28 June 2019
June 2019	31 July 2019
July 2019	30 August 2019
August 2019	30 September 2019
September 2019	31 October 2019
October 2019	29 November 2019
November 2019	31 December 2019
December 2019	31 January 2020

Annex

Hong Kong Monetary Authority
31 October 2018

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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 2018, the scheduled dates for issuing the press releases are as follows:

5 October (Issued)	SDDS International Reserves (Hong Kong’s Latest Foreign Currency Reserve Assets Figures)
12 October (Issued)	SDDS Analytical Accounts of the Central Bank (Analytical Accounts of the Exchange Fund)
31 October	SDDS Template on International Reserves and Foreign Currency Liquidity
31 October	Exchange Fund Abridged Balance Sheet and Currency Board Account

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