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APPENDICES
Date
31.12.1955
31.12.1956 ..
31.12.1957 ..
31.12.1958
31.12.1959.
31.12.1960
31.12.1961 ..
31.12.1962
Date
:
:
:
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Appendix
III
(Chapter 5: Currency
and Banking)
Currency and
Currency in Circulation
Banking Statistics and Bank Deposits
APPENDICES
411
Number of reporting banks
Notes and coins in circulation (HK$ million)
Total
Deposits (HK$ million)
Demand
Index of Deposits
Time
Savings
Total
31st December 1955= 100
Demand
Time
Savings
34
771.7
1,137
852
152
133
100
100
100
100
34
124
783.3
1,267
928
173
166
111
109
114
125
35
812.6
1,412
955
267
190
124
112
176
143
36
827.6
1,583
988
351
244
139
116
231
183
41
896.2
2,056
1,205
482
369
181
141
317
277
47
984.0
2,682
1,393
752
537
236
163
495
404
59
1,026.7
3,367
1,470
1,234
663
296
173
812
498
63
1,123.7
4,311
1,664
1,768
879
379
195
1,163
661
Number of reporting banks
Cash (i.e. legal tender notes and
coins in hand) (HK$ million)
Banking
NET balances with other banks (including Head Offices or Branches outside Hong Kong)
& other short term claims (HK$ million)
Assets
Loans and Advances (HK$ million)
Investments (HK$ million)
Index of Loans and Advances 31st December 1955=100
'Liquidity Ratio' (i.e. cash and net balances with other banks expressed as
percentage of total deposits)
31.12.1955..
31.12.1956.
:
24
34
144
12.7%
459
40.4%
632
$5.6%
3424
97
7.7%
541
42.7%
769
60.7%
200 0008
96
8.4%
98
7.7%
31.12.1957 ..
35
118
8.4%
578
40.9%
865
61.3%
101
7.2%
225
100
53.3%
122
50.4%
137
49.3%
31.12.1958 ..
36
36
84
5.3%
730
46.1%
919
58.1%
121
7.6%
145
51.4%
31.12.1959.
41
86
4.2%
775
37.7%
1,373
66.8%
133 6.5%
217
41.9%
31.12.1960..
47
136
5.1%
930
34.6%
1,720
64.1%
166
6.2%
272
39.7%
31.12.1961 ..
31.12.1962 ..
59
114
3.4%
1.041
30.9%
2,334
69.3%
232 6.9%
369
34.3%
:
63
162
3.8%
1,482
34.4%
2,849
66.1%
191
4.4%
451
38.1%
Figures in Italics =
percentage of total deposits.