International Reserves and Foreign Currency Liquidity

This book provides guidelines for the data template, which integrates the concepts of international reserves and foreign currency liquidity in a single framework. Information is given about the development of its underlying framework, and an outline of its structure and key features. The template was developed in 1999, by the IMF and a working group of the Committee on the Global Financial System of the Group of Ten central banks. It aims to provide a comprehensive account of countries' official foreign currency assets and resources. The template is a prescribed category of the IMF's Special Data Dissemination Standard, which was established in 1996.