Reserve Bank of Australia Balance Sheet

At close of business on Wednesday, 18 June 2025
$ million
Liabilities and Equity Movement Assets Movement
Australian notes on issue 103,781 96 Gold and foreign exchange1 105,452 -246
Exchange Settlement balances 211,893 2,554 Australian dollar investments2 289,428 2,107
Deposits (excluding Exchange Settlement balances) 76,453 -2,006 Other assets (including clearing items) 2,429 -484
Other liabilities 11,037 -195      
Other reserves and current year earnings3 -5,895 928      
Capital and Reserve Bank Reserve Fund 40 -      
Total 397,309 1,377 Total 397,309 1,377
The Bank's liabilities and assets data are provided on a more disaggregated basis in statistical table A1 – RBA Balance Sheet.

Footnotes

1 Gold and foreign exchange
Movements in this item reflect:
a. the Bank's transactions in gold and foreign exchange (including under swaps) and foreign securities;
b. earnings and changes in the valuation of gold and foreign currency investments, including changes in the market prices of the Bank's holdings of foreign currency securities.
In the week to 18 June the fall mainly reflects item (a).

2 Australian dollar investments
Movements in this item reflect:
a. the Bank's transactions in securities;
b. earnings and changes in the valuation of the Bank's Australian dollar investments.
In the week to 18 June the rise mainly reflects item (a).

[3] Other reserves and current year earnings
This item includes unallocated earnings, accounting reserves and accumulated gains or losses on the Bank's assets from movements in domestic and foreign yields, and exchange rates. The treatment of earnings at year-end is subject to distribution of profits as determined in section 30 of the Reserve Bank Act.