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APPENDICES

APPENDIX 14

(Chapter 6: Financial and Monetary Affairs)

Liabilities and Assets: Licensed Banks

$ Million

1989 Foreign

HKS currency

Total

As at end of year

1990 Foreign HK$ currency

1991

Total

Foreign HK$ currency

Total

Liabilities

Amount due to authorised institutions

in Hong Kong

Amount due to banks abroad

Deposits from customers&

=

194,105 216,150 410,255

82,077 2,259,893 2,341,970

358,130 579,524 937,654

194,184 244,802 438,985

99,939 2,952,025 3,051,964

421,560 733,559 1,155,119

Negotiable certificates of deposit

outstanding

Other liabilities

23,483 7,536 31,019

74,409 79,039 153,448

26,344 6,455 32,800

90,313 89,029 179,342

228,267 224,906 453,173

124,365 3,113,320 3,237,685

540,193 771,239 1,311,432

21,284 4,617 25,901

118,072 103,725 221,797

Total liabilities

732,204 3,142,141 3,874,345

832,340 4,025,870 4,858,210

1,032,181 4,217,807 5,249,988

Assets

Notes and coins

5,467

5,467

5,561

5,561

6,560 1,695 8,255

Amount due from authorised institutions

in Hong Kong

198,169

Amount due from banks abroad

Loans and advances to customers

248,340 446,508

22,042 1,957,288 1,979,330

474,343 698,662 1,173,005

210,075 262,931 473,006

37,314 2,356,751 2,394,065

542,902 1,136,674 1,679,576

265,963 249,829 515,792

42,426 2,214,811 2,257,237

644,149 1,473,077 2,117,226

Negotiable certificates of deposit

(NCD) held:

Issued by licensed banks

in Hong Kong

8,083 9,557 17,640

7,307 1,432 8,739

9,931 9,026 18,957

9,239 1,212 10,451

5,377 8,454 13,831

4,550 377 4,927

Issued by restricted licence banks

in Hong Kong

257

257

261

261

426

89

515

Issued by deposit-taking companies

in Hong Kong

405

125

530

338

109

448

301

225

526

Issued by banks outside Hong Kong

114

8,000

8,115

92

7,705

7,797

100

7,763

7,863

Negotiable debt instrument held,

other than NCDs

N.A.

N.A.

N.A.

N.A.

N.A.

N.A.

25,012 174,816 199,827

Acceptances and bills of exchange

held+

1,308

21,937 23,245

Floating rate notes and

commercial paper held +

9,145

45,535 54,679

1,435 19,275 20,710

8,634

46,606 55,240

2,839 29,655 32,493

Government bills, notes and bonds*

Other debt instruments held*

29,278 42,485 71,763

43,284 56,809 100,092

Investments in share-holdings*

Interest in land and buildings*

Other assets+

Total assets

23,415 79,293 102,708

26,981 84,020 111,002

4,937 49,608 54,546 15,117 52,813 67,929 2,119 42,740 44,859

8,163 1,226 9,389

28,812 512 29,324

27,329 71,778 99,107

771,250 3,103,095 3,874,345

886,118 3,972,092 4,858,210

1,053,791 4,196,197 5,249,988

Number of licensed banks in operation

§ Unadjusted for foreign currency swap deposits.

N.A. Not available.

Notes: Due to re-classification of items in statistical return from 1991:

165

# 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.

166

160

* 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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