IV. Memorandum items

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Publication schedule

Description:

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:

2012/120/EU Guideline of the European Central Bank of 9 December 2011 on the statistical reporting requirements of the European Central Bank in the field of external statistics (ECB/2011/23).

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:

2012/120/EU Guideline of the European Central Bank of 9 December 2011 on the statistical reporting requirements of the European Central Bank in the field of external statistics (ECB/2011/23).

IMF, 2011: International Reserves and Foreign Currency Liquidity: Guidelines For A Data Template.