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22 January 2013
In the week ending 18 January 2013 gold and gold receivables (asset item 1) remained unchanged.
The net position of the Eurosystem in foreign currency (asset items 2 and 3 minus liability items 7, 8 and 9) increased by EUR 0.8 billion to EUR 219.2 billion on account of customer and portfolio transactions and US dollar liquidity-providing operations (see below).
US dollar liquidity operations
Value date | Type of transaction | Maturing amount | New amount |
17 January 2013 | 7-day US dollar liquidity- providing reverse transaction | USD 0.1 billion | USD 0.1 billion |
The liquidity-providing transactions were conducted by the Eurosystem in connection with the temporary reciprocal currency arrangement (swap line) that the European Central Bank has with the Federal Reserve System.
The holdings by the Eurosystem of marketable securities other than those held for monetary policy purposes (asset item 7.2) decreased by EUR 2.5 billion to EUR 306.5 billion. Banknotes in circulation (liability item 1) fell by EUR 6.6 billion to EUR 887 billion. Liabilities to general government (liability item 5.1) decreased by EUR 13.3 billion to EUR 83.9 billion.
The Eurosystem's net lending to credit institutions (asset item 5 minus liability items 2.2, 2.3,
2.4, 2.5 and 4) increased by EUR 76.1 billion to EUR 757.9 billion. On Wednesday,
16 January 2013, a main refinancing operation of EUR 77.7 billion matured and a new one of EUR 131.2 billion was settled. On the same day, fixed-term deposits in an amount of EUR 208.5 billion matured and new deposits were collected in the same amount, with a maturity of one week. Also on 16 January 2013 a longer-term refinancing operation of EUR 15.3 billion matured and a new one of EUR 10.5 billion was settled.
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Recourse to the marginal lending facility (asset item 5.5) was EUR 1 billion (compared with EUR 0.2 billion in the previous week), while recourse to the deposit facility (liability item 2.2) was EUR 196.4 billion (compared with EUR 222.6 billion in the preceding week).
The holdings by the Eurosystem of securities held for monetary policy purposes (asset item 7.1) decreased by EUR 0.4 billion to EUR 276.2 billion. This decrease was due to the redemption of securities under the first and second covered bond purchase programmes. Therefore, in the week ending 18 January 2013, the value of accumulated purchases under the Securities Markets Programme amounted to EUR 208.7 billion, while the value of the portfolios held under the first and second covered bond purchase programmes totalled EUR 51.1 billion and EUR 16.3 billion respectively. All three portfolios are accounted for on a held-to-maturity basis.
As a result of all transactions, the current account position of credit institutions with the
Eurosystem (liability item 2.1) increased by EUR 32.3 billion to EUR 540 billion.
In the week ending 18 January 2013 a number of counterparties regained access to regular monetary policy operations. As a result, overall recourse to emergency liquidity assistance decreased, as these counterparties were able to bid again in the main refinancing operation that was settled on 16 January 2013. This development largely explains the increase in lending to euro area credit institutions related to monetary policy operations denominated in euro (asset item 5), as well as the decrease in other claims on euro area credit institutions
denominated in euro (asset item 6).
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Consolidated financial statement of the Eurosystem - 22/01/2013
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Consolidated financial statement of the Eurosystem - 22/01/2013
Assets (EUR millions) | Balance | Difference | Liabilities (EUR millions) | Balance | Difference |
compared | compared | ||||
with last | with last | ||||
week due to | week due to | ||||
transactions | transactions |
1 Gold and gold receivables 438,687 0
1 Banknotes in circulation 887,004
