
Foreign currency reserves amount to $495b end-September
This represents about seven times the currency in circulation.
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority announced the official foreign currency reserve assets of Hong Kong as of September 2021 on 7 October.
The assets amounted to $495b (HKD 3.85) at the end of September 2021. There were no unsettled foreign exchange contracts in end-September 2021.
The current foreign currency reserve assets represent about seven times the currency in circulation or 48% of the Hong Kong dollar.
There is a little decrease when compared to the reserves in end-August 2021 at $497.1b.