APPENDICES
Liabilities and Assets: Deposit-taking Companies
$ Million
As at end of year
1989
Foreign HK$ currency Total
HK$
1990
Foreign currency
Total
1991 Foreign HK$ currency
Total
Liabilities
Amount due to authorised institutions
in Hong Kong
Amount due to banks abroad
=
Deposits from customers§
20,865
18,082 51,534 69,617
1,078 38,634 39,712
11,740 32,605
22,252
885
40,230
62,482
19,855
29,529 30,414
12,513 32,368
26,310 40,207 66,517
429 23,880 24,309
13,500 10,048 23,547
Negotiable certificates of deposit
outstanding
1,662
Other liabilities
637
11,740 58,248
2,298
69,988
1,508
831 2,339
12,397 50,501 62,897
1,215 2,383 3,598
11,572 45,760 57,331
Total liabilities
53,426
160,793 214,219
56,896 133,604
190,500
53,025 122,277 175,302
Assets
Notes and coins
Amount due from authorised institutions
in Hong Kong
Amount due from banks abroad
11
11
7
7
8
14
Loans and advances to customers
19,836 23,069 42,905
168 61,610 61,778
26,910 31,124 58,033
332
32,601
18,217 19,921
43,552 43,884
28,962 61,563
38,139
11,319
211
17,319 28,639
35,323 35,534
36,862
27,778 64,640
Negotiable certificates of deposit
(NCD) held:
2,096
3,143 5,239
1,710
2,174
3,884
1,251
2,621 3,871
Issued by licensed banks
in Hong Kong
1,872
306 2,177
1,522
403
1,925
1,087
272 1,359
ـــ
Issued by restricted licence banks
in Hong Kong
15
15
63
63
56
78
133
Issued by deposit-taking companies
in Hong Kong
172
102
273
114
187
301
75
206
282
Issued by banks outside Hong Kong
37
2,735
2,773
12
1,584
1,596
33
2,064
2,097
Negotiable debt instrument held,
other than NCDs
N.A.
N.A.
N.A.
N.A.
N.A.
N.A.
897
33,612
34,509
Acceptances and bills of exchange
heldt
37
473
509
31
463
494
56
2,207
2,263
Floating rate notes and
commercial paper held †
1,179 20,737 21,916
654
18,484
19,139
585 17,728
18,313
Government bills, notes and bonds*
109 3,749
3,859
Other debt instruments held*
Investments in share-holdings'
Interest in land and buildings*
**
147 9,927
10,074
869
11,393 12,261
872
12,288
13,160
191
635
826
222
150
372
Other assets+
Total assets
1,388 10,179 11,567
1,432 8,800
10.232
1,347 5,551 6,898
52,493
161,726 214,219
55,855 134,644
190,500
52,308 122,995 175,302
Number of deposit-taking companies in operation
§ Unadjusted for foreign currency swap deposits.
@ Less than HK$ 0.5 million.
N.A. Not available.
Notes: Due to re-classification of items in statistical return from 1991:
202
# Foreign currency component available only from 1991, figures before 1991 are included in ‘Other assets'.
† Values from 1991 onwards are not strictly comparable to those in the past.
190
157
* The nearest equivalent of the total of these four items before 1991 is the item 'Treasury bills, securities, share-holdings and interests in land
and buildings'.
413