In the week ending 10 December 2021 the net position of the Eurosystem in foreign currency (asset items 2 and 3 minus liability items 7, 8 and 9) increased by EUR 0.3 billion to EUR 321.3 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) rose by EUR 8.2 billion to EUR 1,421.3 billion, mainly owing to the change in the level of the deposit facility (liability item 2.2).
Claims on non-euro area residents denominated in euro (asset item 4) increased by EUR 1.5 billion to EUR 11.5 billion, mainly owing to Eurosystem operations providing euro liquidity to non-euro area central banks (further details can be found on the ECB’s website under “Central bank liquidity lines”).
Base money (liability items 1, 2.1 and 2.2) decreased by EUR 17.4 billion to EUR 6,126.8 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 portfolios | Reported value as at 10 December 2021 | Weekly change – purchases | Weekly change – redemptions |
| Covered bond purchase programme 1 | EUR 0.4 billion | – | – |
| Securities Markets Programme | EUR 6.5 billion | – | – |
| Covered bond purchase programme 2 | EUR 2.4 billion | – | – |
| Covered bond purchase programme 3 | EUR 299.1 billion | +EUR 0.6 billion | – |
| Asset-backed securities purchase programme | EUR 29.2 billion | +EUR 0.3 billion | -EUR 0.0 billion |
| Public sector purchase programme | EUR 2,487.6 billion | +EUR 7.3 billion | -EUR 3.8 billion |
| Corporate sector purchase programme | EUR 308.7 billion | +EUR 1.1 billion | -EUR 0.2 billion |
| Pandemic emergency purchase programme | EUR 1,565.8 billion | +EUR 20.8 billion | -EUR 2.1 billion |
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).
