Foreign Exchange Intervention
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- Noticias |At the end of June, the outstanding balance of TES held by BR was COP $20,540.3 b (value at market prices). The TES portfolio of BR (expressed in nominal terms) is composed of peso-denominated TES (COP $15,928.8 b) and UVR-denominated TES (UVR 8.2 b.). In July 2020, none of the TES B held…
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Banco de la República (the Central Bank of Colombia, BR) hereby informs that in May 2020 it did not make purchases or sales of TES B in the market, and that it carried out a debt swap…
- Noticias |Banco de la República (the Central Bank of Colombia, BR) hereby informs that in April 2020 it made outright purchases of TES B in the secondary market for COP $837.1 billion (value at market prices). At the end of April, the outstanding balance of TES held by BR was COP $19,909.6 b (valued…
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Banco de la República (BR) hereby informs that it did not perform any purchase or sale of foreign currency in the exchange market in December 2019.
During the same month, BR did not make definitive purchases or sales of TES B in the market. However, the TES portfolio reduced due to a…
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The Board of Directors of Banco de la República decided to end the program of accumulation of reserves announced in September 2018. It considers that the current level of international reserves and the expected result of the renegotiation of the Flexible Credit Line with the IMF will cover the…
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The Board of Directors of Banco de la República decided in its meeting today to suspend the program of accumulation of international reserves started in September 2018 in order to assess the impact of this program on the behavior of the foreign exchange market given the current environment.
- Basic page |In accordance with the transparency that characterizes the inflation targeting regime, the disclosure of foreign exchange intervention is timely.For intervention through auctions, the amounts are announced in advance, and the amounts approved and/or exercised are disclosed on the same day of the…
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The following are the approved intervention mechanisms for Banco de la República (the Central Bank of Colombia).
1. Sale of put options (options to sell foreign currency to the Bank) or call options (options to buy foreign currency from the Bank).
