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RBA Glossary definition for Exchange Settlement Account balances

Exchange Settlement Account balances – The sum of balances held in Exchange Settlement Accounts with the Reserve Bank.

RBA Glossary definition for settlement

settlement – The discharge of obligations arising from fund transfers between two or more parties.

RBA Glossary definition for Exchange Settlement Account

Exchange Settlement Account – An account held at the Reserve Bank of Australia by financial institutions to settle financial obligations arising from the clearing of payments.

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Monetary and External Policies

9 Mar 2023 RBA Annual Report – 1980
Despite higher discounts in forward exchange and currency hedge markets, the changes provided incentive to seek finance in Australia rather than overseas; the capital account of the balance of payments weakened ... on the balance of payments of the
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/annual-reports/rba/1980/monetary-external-policies.html

Financial System Surveillance

9 Mar 2023 RBA Annual Report – 1988
Outmoded stock-exchange settlement procedures had led to large backlogs of paperwork and overdrafts necessary to finance this build-up had become a matter of concern in the months prior to ... All exposures giving rise to credit risk, whether on or
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/annual-reports/rba/1988/fin-sys-surveillance.html

Financial System Surveillance

9 Mar 2023 RBA Annual Report – 1989
itself. Sensible supervision must take account of the consolidated group of which the bank is a part. ... of the Bank for International Settlements and endorsed by the Fifth International Conference of Banking Supervisors, in which the Bank participated.
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/annual-reports/rba/1989/fin-sys-surveillance.html

Notes to and Forming Part of the Financials Statements

27 Oct 2022 RBA Annual Report – October 2022
Exchange Settlement balances. 410,163. 299. 0.1. Deposits from governments. 55,845. 112. ... Note 9 – Deposits. Deposits. 2022. $M. 2021. $M. Exchange Settlement balances.
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/annual-reports/rba/2022/financial-statements/notes.html

Operations in Financial Markets

27 Oct 2022 RBA Annual Report – October 2022
Exchange Settlement (ES) balances. ... The funds traded in the cash market are the balances held by financial institutions in their Exchange Settlement Accounts (ESAs) at the Reserve Bank.
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/annual-reports/rba/2022/operations-in-financial-markets.html

Risk Management

27 Oct 2022 RBA Annual Report – October 2022
These repos were no longer considered necessary by many ADIs in the presence of high exchange settlement account balances with the Reserve Bank (see chapter on Operations in Financial Markets). ... Liabilities include Exchange Settlement (ES) account
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/annual-reports/rba/2022/risk-management.html

Banking and Payment Services

27 Oct 2022 RBA Annual Report – October 2022
This requires the movement of agency account balances, held with commercial financial institutions and with the Reserve Bank, into the Official Public Account (OPA). ... payments. Obligations are settled through the debiting and crediting of Exchange
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/annual-reports/rba/2022/banking-and-payment-services.html

Annual Performance Statement for 2021/22

27 Oct 2022 RBA Annual Report – October 2022
The very high Exchange Settlement account balances mean the cash rate is likely to range between the target and the remuneration rate on Exchange Settlement balances. ... The cash rate target was 10 basis points and the interest rate on Exchange
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/annual-reports/rba/2022/annual-performance-statement.html

Earnings, Distribution and Capital

27 Oct 2022 RBA Annual Report – October 2022
Moreover, Exchange Settlement (ES) balances, which have grown significantly as a result of the Banks policy actions, were, until recently, paid a zero interest rate. ... Over the past year, the valuation gains from exchange rate movements were relatively
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Communication and Community Engagement

27 Oct 2022 RBA Annual Report – October 2022
Staff from the Payments Settlements and Banking departments represent the Bank on NPP operating committees. ... The Reserve Bank sponsors and provides the secretariat to the Australian Foreign Exchange Committee (AFXC).
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/annual-reports/rba/2022/communication-and-community-engagement.html