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Changes in Items in "BOJ Current Account Balances by Sector"

August 31, 2021
Financial Markets Department
Bank of Japan

The Bank of Japan will change the format of "BOJ Current Account Balances by Sector" and release new data on the BOJ Time-Series Data Search.

This is in line with the amendments to the "Principal Terms and Conditions of Complementary Deposit Facility" and the "Special Rules regarding Calculation of Interest of Complementary Deposit Facility for Money Reserve Funds, etc." decided at the Monetary Policy Meeting held on March 18 and 19, 2021.

The details of the changes are as follows.

1. BOJ Current Account Balances by Sector

  1. (1) The amounts published at present in the notes 9. and 10. of "(Reference) Current Account Balances Subject to the Complementary Deposit Facility" will be published in a new column.
  2. (2) The amounts that come under 2. (2) of the "Special Rules regarding Calculation of Interest of Complementary Deposit Facility for Money Reserve Funds, etc." (amounts added in the calculation of the limit of the Macro Add-on Balance) will be newly published in the "(Reference) Current Account Balances Subject to the Complementary Deposit Facility."
  3. (3) The amounts that come under 4. (3) (d) of the "Principal Terms and Conditions of Complementary Deposit Facility" (amounts reduced in the calculation of the limit of the Macro Add-on Balance) will be newly published in the "(Reference) Current Account Balances Subject to the Complementary Deposit Facility."

Note: These items will be published in the new format from the data for the reserve maintenance period starting from August 16, 2021.

Example of the new format [XLSX 37KB]

2. BOJ Time-Series Data Search

"Amounts added in the calculation of the limit of the Macro Add-on Balance" and "Amounts reduced in the calculation of the limit of the Macro Add-on Balance" will be added to items under the "upper bound of balances to which a zero interest rate is applied."

Note: These items will be added from the data for the reserve maintenance period starting from August 16, 2021.

Inquiries

Operations Group, Market Operations Division, Financial Markets Department

E-mail : post.cmmd3@boj.or.jp