Bank of Japan reports a JPY 683.3 trillion balance sheet led by JPY 546.1 trillion in Japanese government securities

The Bank of Japan published its statement of assets and liabilities, showing total assets and total liabilities and net assets of JPY 683,297,614,871 thousand (about JPY 683.3 trillion). Japanese government securities were the largest asset item at JPY 546,068,033,994 thousand, while the main liability items were current deposits of JPY 460,182,917,834 thousand and banknotes of JPY 116,966,340,090 thousand. Other key asset categories included loans excluding those to the Deposit Insurance Corporation of JPY 83,505,800,000 thousand, index-linked exchange-traded funds held as trust property of JPY 37,160,983,898 thousand, foreign currency assets of JPY 11,488,417,302 thousand, corporate bonds of JPY 2,524,889,497 thousand and Japan real estate investment trusts held as trust property of JPY 654,402,305 thousand. Other deposits including those held by foreign central banks and others totaled JPY 48,524,763,691 thousand, payables under repurchase agreements were JPY 37,060,018,729 thousand and government deposits were JPY 4,324,094,967 thousand; provisions were JPY 10,586,442,843 thousand and legal and special reserves were JPY 3,775,923,999 thousand. Annex tables showed the Japanese government securities portfolio comprised Japanese government bonds with no treasury discount bills, Loan Support Program loans outstanding totaled JPY 55,041,237,880 thousand, and pooled-collateral, disaster-area and climate-response funds-supplying operations totaled JPY 28,931,600,000 thousand in loans outstanding.