The National Bank announced that Malaysia's international reserves as of February 14th were $117.7 billion, higher than the $116.4 billion recorded on January 31st.
The National Bank stated in a press release today (21st) that the reserves are sufficient to cover 5 months of imports and 0.9 times the short-term external debt.
The largest component of the reserves, foreign exchange reserves, stood at $105.2 billion, with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) reserves at $1.2 billion, Special Drawing Rights (SDR) at $5.7 billion, gold at $3.3 billion, and other reserve assets at $2.3 billion.
Additionally, our country’s total assets have reached 634.34 billion Malaysian Ringgit, including gold and foreign exchange and other reserves, including SDR (527.02 billion Ringgit), Malaysian government bonds (12.95 billion Ringgit), funds placed with financial institutions (1.7 billion Ringgit), loans and prepayments (26.61 billion Ringgit), land and buildings (4.59 billion Ringgit), and other assets (61.45 billion Ringgit).
The National Bank noted that capital and liabilities amounted to 634.34 billion Malaysian Ringgit, including paid-up capital of 100 million Ringgit, reserves (196.07 billion Ringgit), circulating currency (176.33 billion Ringgit), financial institution deposits (124.49 billion Ringgit), federal government deposits (15.61 billion Ringgit), other deposits (79.87 billion Ringgit), National Bank bonds (10.71 billion Ringgit), SDR allocations (28.18 billion Ringgit), and other liabilities (2.96 billion Ringgit).