• Lending of Latvijas Banka holdings purchased under the PSPP

    The securities purchased under the Public Sector Purchase Programme (PSPP) should be made available for lending in a decentralised manner. The aim of securities lending is to support bond and repo market liquidity without disrupting normal repo market activity.

    Latvijas Banka makes its holdings in the PSPP available for securities lending by participating in the strategic lending facility (ASLplus) and Automated Securities Lending (ASL) programme of Clearstream Banking Luxembourg (CBL) for purposes of mitigating settlement fails.

    Currently Latvijas Banka makes the following bonds, which were bought under the PSPP, available for securities lending via the ASLplus and ASL programme of CBL
  • Securities totalling 18.6 million euro were purchased under the PSPP in December

    In December 2018, implementing the public sector purchase programme (PSPP), Latvijas Banka purchased securities issued by the Latvian government and international organisations located in the euro area amounting to 18.6 million euro. Overall, Latvijas Banka has purchased securities totalling 7 423.1 million euro under the PSPP, including 1 808.4 million euro in 2015, 2 548.9 million euro in 2016, 2 362.7 million euro in 2017.and 703.1 million euro in 2018.
  • Securities totalling 10.6 million euro were purchased under the PSPP in November
  • Securities totalling 41.7 million euro were purchased under the PSPP in October
  • Securities totalling 59.9 million euro were purchased under the PSPP in September
  • Securities totalling 105.1 million euro were purchased under the PSPP in August
  • Securities totalling 94.8 million euro were purchased under the PSPP in June
  • Securities totalling 84.8 million euro were purchased under the PSPP in May
  • Securities totalling 82.5 million euro were purchased under the PSPP in February
  • Securities totalling 80.5 million euro were purchased under the PSPP in January

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