Description
This is a PPT describing about Utilization of Foreign Reserves in India.

Utilization of Foreign Exchange Reserves in INDIA
vis-à-vis

International Experience

Agenda
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Concept : FOREX RESERVES
Trend & Growth : Indian Context Utilization of Forex Reserves International Experience

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Conclusion

Foreign Exchange Reserves
Definition
“Those external assets that are readily available to and controlled by monetary authorities for direct financing of payment imbalance, for indirectly regulating the magnitude of such imbalances through intervention in exchange markets to effect the currency exchange , and /or for other purposes”

Why Hold Forex Reserves ?
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Intervention in the FX market Execution of payments for goods and services for the country Granting of emergency liquidity assistance to sectors of economy

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Underpinning the investor confidence in the country’s ability to meets its FX commitments
Execution of payments for the government Support of domestic monetary policy liquidity management

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Components Of FOREX
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Major Constituents
• Foreign Currency Assets(FCA) • Special Drawing Rights(SDR) • Gold • Reserve Tranche Position(RTP)

Foreign Currency Assets (FCA)
Components :
• Foreign Direct Investment • Portfolio Investment • External Assistance • External Commercial Borrowings

Components Contd.
• Short Term Credits
• NRI Deposits • Rupee Debt Service • Other Capital

Special Drawing Rights (SDR)
• The SDR is an international reserve asset created by the IMF in 1969. • SDR’s is a potential claim on the freely usable currencies of IMF members
Holders of SDRs can obtain these currencies in exchange for their SDRs in two ways: i. Voluntary exchanges between members ii. IMF designating members

• SDRs are allocated to member countries in proportion to their IMF quotas. • Its value is based on a basket of key international currencies.

SDR FACTSHEET
January 2006 - December 2010
ISO
USD EUR

CURRENCY US Dollar

WEIGHT
44 % 34 %

VALUE $ 0.6320

European Euros
Japanese Yen

€ 0.4100
¥ 18.4

JPY GBP

11 % 11 %

British Pound

£ 0.0903

GOLD Reserves
• Gold reserves (or gold holdings) are held by central banks as a store of value.

World official gold holding (September 2008)[6] Gold

Gold's share of total forex reserves (%)[6]

Rank 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

Country/Organization

(tonnes)

World Eurozone (incl. ECB) USA Germany International Monetary Fund

29,783.90 10,911.40 8,133.50 3,413.10 3,217.30

58.00% 77.30% 66.40% -

France Italy Switzerland Japan SPDR Gold Trust (a Gold exchange-traded fund)
Netherlands People's Republic of China European Central Bank Russia Republic of China (Taiwan) Portugal India Venezuela

2,540.90 2,451.80 1,064.10 765.2
745.2[7] 621.4 600 533.6 472.6 422.4 382.5 357.7 356.8

57.80% 67.00% 38.10% 2.10%
59.90% 0.90% 23.00% 2.10% 3.80% 85.50% 3.10% 29.30%

Reserve Tranche Position(RTP)
• Proportion of the required quota of currency that each IMF member country must provide to the IMF. • The RTP of the quota can be accessed by the member nation at any time with out any obligation.

• IMF denominates its members' quotas in terms of special drawing rights (SDRs), which is essentially a specified basket of major international currencies.

Trend & Growth : Indian Story
• Rise In INDIAN FOREX RESERVES after 1991 : Significant •Major Contributors • CAPITAL INFLOWS ? Foreign Direct Investment ? Portfolio Investment ? NRI Deposits ? External Borrowings

Cause for Accretion of Reserves
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Indian exports – merchandise exports growing at 18percent per annum
Repatriation of money from abroad

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Interest rate differential.
Rise of IT industry Tourism Millennium bonds issued by GOI

INDIAS FOREIGN EXCHANGE RESERVES OVER THE YEARS
350000

TOTAL RESERVES
300000

FOREIGN CURRENCY ASSETS GOLD

250000

RESERVE POSITION IN IMF
SPECIAL DRAWING RIGHTS

US MILLION $

200000

150000

100000

50000

0

US MILLION $
50000 100000 200000 250000 300000 350000

150000

0 06/01/2006 06/02/2006 06/03/2006 06/04/2006 06/05/2006 06/06/2006 06/07/2006 06/08/2006 06/09/2006 06/10/2006

06/11/2006
06/12/2006 06/01/2007 06/02/2007 06/03/2007 06/04/2007 06/05/2007 06/06/2007 06/07/2007 06/08/2007 06/09/2007 06/10/2007 06/11/2007 06/12/2007 06/01/2008 06/02/2008 06/03/2008

GOLD

06/04/2008
06/05/2008 06/06/2008 06/07/2008 06/08/2008 06/09/2008 06/10/2008

INDIAS FOREIGN EXCHANGE RESERVES 2007 - 2008

TOTAL RESERVES

SPECIAL DRAWING RIGHTS

FOREIGN CURRENCY ASSETS

RESERVE POSITION IN IMF

100 90 80 70 PERCENTAGE 60 50 40

INDIAS FOREIGN EXCHANGE RESERVES OVER THE YEARS

FOREIGN CURRENCY ASSETS GOLD RESERVE POSITION IN IMF SPECIAL DRAWING RIGHTS

30 20 10 0

CAPITAL FLOWS
35000

Portfolio Investment
30000

25000

Foreign Direct Investment External Assistance

US MILLION $

20000

15000

10000

5000

0 1995-96 2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 R 2006-07 PR 2007-08 P

-5000

CAPITAL FLOWS
25000

20000

External Commercial Borrowings Short term Credits

15000

NRI Deposits

US MILLION $

10000

5000

0 1995-96 2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 R 2006-07 PR 2007-08 P

-5000

Adequacy
Ability to absorb external shocks

•Traditional approach 3 months of import bill
•Alternative measures of adequacy (C.Rangarajan) 1. Short term external debts 2. 100% of External liability

IMPORT COVER
18.00 16.00

14.00

12.00

MONTHS

10.00

8.00

6.00

4.00

2.00

0.00

SINGAPORE

KOREA

ISRAEL

INDIA

EXTERNAL LIABILITIES COVERAGE
300,000

RESERVES, 252,883 250,000 EXTERNAL LIABILITY, 224000

200,000

USMILLION $

150,000

100,000 NET EXTERNAL LIABILITY, 73900

50,000

0 1

FOREX AS RATIO OF GDP
120

100

80

PERCENTAGE

60

40

20

0

SINGAPORE

KOREA

ISRAEL

INDIA

CHINA

UTILIZATION AS ON OCTOBER 2008
250,000.00

200,000.00

US MILLION $

150,000.00

100,000.00

Singapore Korea Israel India

50,000.00

0.00 Securities Other national central banks, BIS and IMF Domestic Banks Foreign Banks IMF reserve position SDRs Gold

UTILISATION

PERCENTAGE UTILIZATION AS ON OCTOBER 2008
100

90

80

70

PERCENTAGE

60

50

40

30

Singapore Korea Israel India

20

10

0 Securities Other national Domestic Banks Foreign Banks central banks, BIS and IMF IMF reserve position SDRs Gold

UTILISATION

Factors affecting India in forex usage
Legal restrictions by RBI act 1934

Investments can be done only in:
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Deposits with other central banks and Bank for International Settlements(BIS).

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Deposits with foreign commercial banks
Debt instruments representing sovereign/sovereignguaranteed liability.

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Other instruments/institutions as approved by the Central Board of RBI

Factors affecting India in FOREX usage (contd.)
Risk management
1. 2.
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Credit risk Market risk currency risk ii. Interest rate risk Liquidity risk Operational risk and control system.

3. 4.

Forex utilization by other countries
Singapore 1981: Government of Singapore Investment corporation. Present value of assets 330 billion USD China 2007: Established China Investment corporation to manage 200 billion USD forex reserves.

Korea:
2005: Established Korea Investment corporation with 17 billion USD.

Steps to be taken.
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Reforms in existing laws
Investment in infrastructure Short term Private investment up to 25% of existing reserves Current Forex reserves exceeds 100% external liability. Invest the surplus amount.

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THANK YOU



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