Consolidated financial statement of the Eurosystem as at 1 March 2024

In the week ending 1 March 2024 the net position of the Eurosystem in foreign currency (asset items 2 and 3 minus liability items 7, 8 and 9) decreased by EUR 0.3 billion to EUR 316.8 billion.
The net balance of open market operations and standing facilities (asset item 5 minus liability items 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5 and 4) increased by EUR 32 billion to -EUR 3,090.5 billion. This was due primarily to the change in the level of the deposit facility (liability item 2.2).
Base money (liability items 1, 2.1 and 2.2) fell by EUR 20.5 billion to EUR 5,199.7 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.

Table 1

Monetary policy securities portfolios Reported value as at 1 March 2024 Weekly change – purchases [1] Weekly change – redemptions
Securities Markets Programme EUR 2.4 billion    
Covered bond purchase programme 3 EUR 278.8 billion   -EUR 0.3 billion
Asset-backed securities purchase programme EUR 12.5 billion   -EUR 0.1 billion
Public sector purchase programme EUR 2,351.3 billion -EUR 0 billion -EUR 9.9 billion
Corporate sector purchase programme EUR 318.7 billion   -EUR 0.4 billion
Pandemic emergency purchase programme EUR 1,665.0 billion +EUR 4.3 billion -EUR 9.6 billion

[1] With the discontinuation of the reinvestments under the asset purchase programme, this column may sometimes show negative amounts. These are expected to be infrequent and would result from sales of securities conducted, for instance, for risk management purposes.

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).

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