APPENDICES
Liabilities and Assets: Deposit-taking Companies
$ Million
As at end of year
Liabilities
Amount due to authorised institutions
in Hong Kong
Amount due to banks abroad
HK$ currency Total
1990 Foreign
1991
Foreign
HK$ currency
Total
1992 Foreign HK$ currency
Total
22,252
Deposits from customers§
19,855
40,230 62,482
885 29,529 30,414
12,513 32,368
26,310
429
13,500
40,207 66,517
23,880 24,309
10,048 23,547
28,377
38,154
66,531
400
22,478
22,879
10,953
8,155 19,107
Negotiable certificates of deposit
outstanding
1,508
831
Other liabilities
12,397 50,501
2,339
62,897
1,215 2,383
11,572 45,760
3,598
57,331
2,016
388 2,405
11,992 37,037 49,029
Total liabilities
56,896 133,604 190,500
53,025 122,277
175,302
53,739 106,212 159,951
Assets
Notes and coins
Amount due from authorised institutions
in Hong Kong
Amount due from banks abroad
7
7
8
6
14
16
6
22
18,217
19,921
38,139
332 43,552
43,884
Loans and advances to customers
32,601 28,962 61,563
11,319
211
36,862
17,319 28,639
35,323 35,534
27,778 64,640
9,097
14,363 23,460
93 30,677 30,770
40,298
24,094 64,392
Negotiable certificates of deposit
(NCD) held:
1,710 2,174 3,884
1,251
2,621 3,871
1,088
1,678
2,765
Issued by licensed banks
in Hong Kong
1,522
403
1,925
1,087
272
1,359
931
361
1,292
Issued by restricted licence banks
in Hong Kong
63
63
56
78
133
79
105
184
Issued by deposit-taking companies
in Hong Kong
114
187
301
75
206
282
70
191
261
Issued by banks outside Hong Kong
12
1,584
1,596
33
2,064 2,097
8 1,022
1,030
Negotiable debt instrument held,
other than NCDs
N.A.
N.A.
N.A.
897
33,612
34,509
952 30,792
31,745
Acceptances and bills of exchange
held+
31
463
494
56
2,207
2,263
63
2,798 2,862
Floating rate notes and
commercial paper held +
654 18,484
19,139
585
17,728 18,313
280 14,836 15,117
Government bills, notes and bonds*
Other debt instruments held*
Investments in share-holdings*
Interest in land and buildings*
Other assets†
Total assets
109
3,749 3,859
372
4,173 4,545
147
9,927 10,074
236
8,985
9,221
872 12,288 13,160
191
635
826
168
512
681
222
150
372
235
87
322
1,432 8,800 10,232
1,347
5,551
6,898
1,024
4,770 5,794
55,855 134,644 190,500
52,308 122,995 175,302
52,971
106,980 159,951
Number of deposit-taking companies in operation
Notes:
§ Unadjusted for foreign currency swap deposits.
N.A. Not available.
Due to re-classification of items in statistical return from 1991:
190
157
146
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.
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'.
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