European Central Bank publishes disaggregated Eurosystem financial statement as at 27 February 2026

The European Central Bank published the disaggregated financial statement of the Eurosystem, providing a national central bank-by-central bank breakdown of the consolidated balance sheet (with consolidation adjustments) in EUR millions as at 27 February 2026. Total Eurosystem assets and liabilities were EUR 6,226,783 million. On the asset side, securities of euro area residents denominated in euro amounted to EUR 3,988,512 million, including EUR 3,655,897 million held for monetary policy purposes. Gold and gold receivables were EUR 279,479 million and claims on non-euro area residents denominated in foreign currency were EUR 508,169 million, including EUR 226,584 million in receivables from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Monetary policy lending to euro area credit institutions totalled EUR 23,688 million, split between main refinancing operations of EUR 12,827 million and longer-term refinancing operations of EUR 10,861 million. On the liability side, banknotes in circulation were EUR 1,605,953 million and liabilities to euro area credit institutions related to monetary policy operations were EUR 2,574,238 million, mainly the deposit facility (EUR 2,400,301 million) and current accounts covering the minimum reserve system (EUR 173,937 million). The release also notes that capital and reserves can be negative for individual national central banks due to accumulated losses carried forward.