HKMA:International Reserves and Foreign Currency Liquidity
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) released the analytical data on the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region’s foreign currency reserves and foreign currency liquidity as at the end of February 2023 (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 (SDDS).
HONG KONG, CHINA DATA TEMPLATE ON INTERNATIONAL RESERVES / FOREIGN CURRENCY LIQUIDITY AS AT 28 February 2023 (US$ million)
I. Official reserve assets and other foreign currency assets (approximate market value)
| A. Official reserve assets (Note 1) | 429,120 |
| (1) Foreign currency reserves (in convertible foreign currencies) | 415,288 |
| (a) Securities (Note 2) | 336,377 |
| of which: issuer headquartered in Hong Kong but located abroad | 0 |
| (b) total currency and deposits with: | |
| (i) other national central banks, BIS and IMF (Note 3) | 78,911 |
| (ii) banks headquartered in Hong Kong (Note 4) | 78,197 |
| of which: located abroad | |
| (iii) banks headquartered outside Hong Kong (Note 4) | 714 |
| of which: located in Hong Kong | |
| (2) IMF reserve position (Note 5) | 4 |
| (3) SDRs | |
| (4) gold (including gold deposits and, if appropriate, gold swapped) | 121 |
| -volume in fine troy ounces (66,798 ounces at US$1,810.20) | 0 |
| (5) other reserve assets (specify) | 13,707 |
| financial derivatives (Note 6) | 329 |
| loans to nonbank nonresidents | 0 |
| other (Note 7) | 13,378 |
| B. Other foreign currency assets (specify) (Note 8) | 37,830 |
| securities not included in official reserve assets | 980 |
| deposits not included in official reserve assets | 36,737 |
| loans not included in official reserve assets | |
| financial derivatives not included in official reserve assets | |
| gold not included in official reserve assets | |
| other | 113 |
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