International Reserves and Foreign Currency Liquidity
As at Sunday, 30 November 2025
(Information to be disclosed by the monetary authorities and other central government, excluding social security)
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Table I
Official reserve assets and other foreign currency assets
(USD million)
| A. Official reserve assets | 124,121.50 |
| (1) Foreign currency reserves (in convertible foreign currencies) | 109,781.15 1 |
| (a) Securities | 88,068.12 |
| of which: issuer headquartered in reporting country but located abroad | |
| (b) Total currency and deposits with: | 21,713.03 |
| (i) other national central banks, BIS and IMF | 20,960.05 |
| (ii) banks headquartered in the reporting country | |
| of which: located abroad | 60.86 |
| (iii) banks headquartered outside the reporting country | 692.12 |
| of which: located in the reporting country | |
| (2) IMF reserve position | 1,288.02 |
| (3) SDRs | 5,971.89 |
| (4) Gold (including gold deposits and, if appropriate, gold swapped) | 4,763.97 |
| - volume in fine troy ounces (in million ounces) | 1.25 |
| (5) Other reserve assets (specify) | 2,316.472 |
| - financial derivatives | |
| - loans to non-bank non-residents | |
| - others | 2,316.47 |
| B. Other foreign currency assets (specify) | 266.23 |
| - securities not included in official reserve assets | 66.07 |
| - deposits not included in official reserve assets | 200.00 |
| - loans not included in official reserve assets | - |
| - financial derivatives not included in official reserve assets | - |
| - gold not included in official reserve assets | - |
| - others | 0.16 |
1 Includes net short and long positions reported in Table II, Item 2
2 Includes investment in BIS-ABF
Table II
Predetermined short-term net drains on foreign currency assets
(nominal value in USD million)
| Total | Maturity breakdown (residual maturity) | ||||
| Up to 1 month | More than 1 month and up to 3 months | More than 3 months and up to 1 year | |||
| 1. Foreign currency loans, securities, and deposits | -13,188.20³ | -5,819.18 | -3,317.23 | -4,051.79 | |
| - outflows (–) | Principal | -12,831.89 | -5,786.97 | -3,245.25 | -3,799.67 |
| Interest | -356.31 | -32.21 | -71.98 | -252.12 | |
| - inflows (+) | Principal | ||||
| Interest | |||||
| 2. Aggregate short and long positions in forwards and futures in foreign currencies vis-a-vis the domestic currency (including the forward leg of currency swaps) | |||||
| (a) Short positions (–) | -21,224.21 | -4,900.00 | -3,400.00 | -12,924.21 | |
| (b) Long positions (+) | 200.00 | 0.00 | 200.00 | 0.00 | |
| 3. Other (specify) | |||||
| - outflows related to repos (–) | |||||
| - inflows related to reverse repos (+) | |||||
| - trade credit (–) | |||||
| - trade credit (+) | |||||
| - other accounts payable (–) | |||||
| - other accounts receivable (+) | |||||
3 Effective April 2006, data excludes projected foreign currency inflows arising from interest income and drawdown of project loans. Projected foreign currency inflows amount to USD2,914.1 million in the next 12 months. The data includes outstanding foreign currency Bank Negara Interbank Bills (BNIB), short-term foreign currency deposits under money market liquidity operations and scheduled repayment of government external borrowings.
Table III
Contingent short-term net drains on foreign currency assets
(nominal value in USD million)
| Total | Maturity breakdown (residual maturity, where applicable) | |||
| Up to 1 month | More than 1 month and up to 3 months | More than 3 months and up to 1 year |
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| 1. Contingent liabilities in foreign currency | -417.03 | 0.00 | -198.56 | -218.47 |
| (a) Collateral guarantees on debt falling due within 1 year | -417.03 | 0.00 | -198.56 | -218.47 |
| (b) Other contingent liabilities | ||||
| 2. Foreign currency securities issued with embedded options (puttable bonds) | ||||
| 3. Undrawn, unconditional credit lines provided by: | ||||
| (a) other national monetary authorities, BIS, IMF, and other international organisations | ||||
| - other national monetary authorities (+) | ||||
| - BIS (+) | ||||
| - IMF (+) | ||||
| - other international organisations (+) | ||||
| (b) with banks and other financial institutions headquartered in the reporting countries (+) | ||||
| (c) with banks and other financial institutions headquartered outside the reporting country (+) | ||||
| 4. Undrawn, unconditional credit lines provided to: | ||||
| (a) other national monetary authorities, BIS, IMF, and other international organisations | ||||
| - other national monetary authorities (–) | ||||
| - BIS (–) | ||||
| - IMF (–) | ||||
| - other international organisations (–) | ||||
| (b) banks and other financial institutions headquartered in reporting country (–) | ||||
| (c) banks and other financial institutions headquartered outside the reporting country (–) | ||||
| 5. Aggregate short and long positions of options in foreign currencies vis-a-vis the domestic currency | ||||
| (a) Short positions | ||||
| (i) Bought puts | ||||
| (ii) Written calls | ||||
| (b) Long positions | ||||
| (i) Bought calls | ||||
| (ii) Written puts | ||||
| PRO MEMORIA: In-the-money options | ||||
| (1) At current exchange rates | ||||
| (a) Short position | ||||
| (b) Long position | ||||
| (2) +5% (depreciation of 5%) | ||||
| (a) Short position | ||||
| (b) Long position | ||||
| (3) -5% (appreciation of 5%) | ||||
| (a) Short position | ||||
| (b) Long position | ||||
| (4) +10% (depreciation of 10%) | ||||
| (a) Short position | ||||
| (b) Long position | ||||
| (5) -10% (appreciation of 10%) | ||||
| (a) Short position | ||||
| (b) Long position | ||||
| (6) Other (specify) | ||||
Table IV
Memo items
(USD million)
| (1) To be reported with standard periodicity and timeliness: | |
| (a) short-term domestic currency debt indexed to the exchange rate | |
| (b) financial instruments denominated in foreign currency and settled by other means (e.g., in domestic currency) | |
| - derivatives (forwards, futures or options contracts) | |
| - short positions | |
| - long positions | |
| - other instruments | |
| (c) pledged assets | |
| - included in reserve assets | |
| - included in other foreign currency assets | |
| (d) securities lent and on repo | |
| - lent or repoed and included in Section I | - |
| - lent or repoed but not included in Section I | |
| - borrowed or acquired and included in Section I | |
| - borrowed or acquired but not included in section I | - |
| (e) financial derivatives assets (net, marked to market) | |
| - forwards | |
| - futures | |
| - swaps | |
| - options | |
| - other | |
| (f) derivatives (forward, futures, or options contracts) that have a residual maturity greater than one year | |
| - aggregate short and long position in forwards and futures in foreign currencies vis-à-vis the domestic currency (including the forward leg of currency swaps) | |
| (a) short positions (–) | |
| (b) long positions (+) | |
| - aggregate short and long positions of options in foreign currencies vis-à-vis the domestic currency | |
| (a) short positions | -6,636.00 |
| (i) bought puts | |
| (ii) written calls | |
| (b) long positions | |
| (i) bought calls | |
| (ii) written puts | |
| (2) To be disclosed at least once a year: | |
| (a) currency composition of reserves (by groups of currencies) | |
| - currencies in SDR basket | To be disclosed in December |
| - currencies not in SDR basket | To be disclosed in December |
| - by individual currencies (optional) | |
