Consolidated financial statement of the Eurosystem as at 16 April 2021

PRESS RELEASE

20 April 2021

Consolidated financial statement of the Eurosystem as at 16 April 2021

In the week ending 16 April 2021 the net position of the Eurosystem in foreign currency (asset items 2 and 3 minus liability items 7, 8 and 9) remained virtually unchanged at EUR 308.2 billion.

As a result of the Eurosystem's open market operations and standing facilities, net lending to credit institutions (asset item 5 minus liability items 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5 and 4) increased by EUR 38.4 billion to EUR 1,402.1 billion, mainly owing to the change in the level of the deposit facility (liability item 2.2).

Base money (liability items 1, 2.1 and 2.2) decreased by EUR 31.5 billion to EUR 5,631.7 billion.

The table below provides the detailed breakdown of securities held for monetary policy purposes (asset item 7.1) into the different portfolios. All portfolios are accounted for at amortised cost.

Monetary policy securities	Reported value as at	Weekly change -	Weekly change -
portfolios	16 April 2021	purchases	redemptions
Covered bond purchase	EUR 0.4 billion	-	-EUR 0.0 billion
programme 1
Securities Markets Programme	EUR 23.5 billion	-	-EUR 0.5 billion
Covered bond purchase	EUR 2.4 billion	-	-EUR 0.2 billion
programme 2
Covered bond purchase	EUR 288.4 billion	+EUR 1.3 billion	-EUR 2.3 billion
programme 3
Asset-backed securities purchase	EUR 28.8 billion	+EUR 0.0 billion	-EUR 0.1 billion
programme
Public sector purchase	EUR 2,383.3 billion	+EUR 10.0 billion	-EUR 9.5 billion
programme
Corporate sector purchase	EUR 269.8 billion	+EUR 1.8 billion	-EUR 0.4 billion
programme
Pandemic emergency purchase	EUR 976.6 billion	+EUR 28.4 billion	-EUR 12.1 billion
programme

The content and format of the weekly financial statement are set out in Annexes IV to VI of Guideline (EU) 2016/2249 of the European Central Bank of 3 November 2016 on the legal framework for accounting and financial reporting in the European System of Central Banks (ECB/2016/34).