OeNB, Eurosystem and Monetary Indicators


IV. Memorandum Items

Notes:

Publishing these statistics is an obligation under the SDDS. "Memorandum Items" provide an additional breakdown of claims of the OeNB and liabilities of the central government provided in sections I and II. The OeNB’s official reserve assets (as presented in section I) are broken down by currency groups.

Source:

OeNB, Austrian Federal Financing Agency.

Definitions and terms:

Forward transaction, financial derivatives, futures, swaps, short position, long position, official reserve assets, currency groups, SDR currency basket.

Legal basis:

2004/808/EC Guideline of the European Central Bank of 16 July 2004 on the statistical reporting requirements of the European Central Bank in the field of balance of payments and international investment position statistics, and the international reserves template (EC/2004/15). ).

Articles of Agreement of the International Monetary Fund and Special Data Dissemination Standard of the IMF.

Methodology:

Collected monthly.

Reporting institutions:

OeNB, Austrian Federal Financing Agency.

Standards and codes:

2004/808/EC Guideline of the European Central Bank of 16 July 2004 on the statistical reporting requirements of the European Central Bank in the field of balance of payments and international investment position statistics, and the international reserves template (ECB/2004/15).

IMF, 2001: International Reserves and Foreign Currency Liquidity: Guidelines For A Data Template, Anne Y. Kester.