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The Occasional Bulletin of Economic Notes is a compilation of South African Reserve Bank Economic Notes that are typically short economic analyses initially written for internal discussion and to stimulate debate. They are written by staff members of the South African Reserve Bank or visiting fellows and are released publicly on an occasional basis.
Presentations from the Innovation and Cyber Security Conference (28-30 August 2018).
Statement of Assets and Liabilities
This notice provides detail of the US dollar equivalent of the level of the South African Reserve Bank’s (SARB) official gold and foreign exchange reserves, Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) and foreign currency deposits received from customers published today in the SARB’s Statement of Assets and Liabilities as at 31 August 2018.
The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) is honoured to have received the inaugural ‘Best Distributed Ledger Initiative’ award from Central Banking Publications at a gala dinner in Singapore on Thursday evening, 6 September 2018. The award recognised Project Khoka for its promise shown in the central banking, regulatory and supervisory environment, and for the benefit shown to the organisation that implemented the project.
As a ratio of gross domestic product (GDP) the current account deficit improved to 3.3% in the second quarter of 2018 from 4.6% in the first quarter.