International Reserves and Foreign Currency Liquidity

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) released today (Thursday) the analytical data on the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region’s foreign currency reserves and foreign currency liquidity as at the end of September 2019 (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 2020 is announced below:

Annex

Hong Kong Monetary Authority
31 October 2019

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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 2019, the scheduled dates for issuing the press releases are as follows: