KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 31 ― Malaysia's reserves remain usable and unencumbered as at end-September 2014, based on the detailed breakdown of international reserves under the International Monetary Fund's Special Data Dissemination Standard (SDDS) format.

In a statement today, Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) said official reserve assets amounted to US$127.27 billion, while other foreign currency assets amounted to US$6.35 billion (RM20.9 billion).

For the next 12 months, the central bank said the predetermined short-term outflows of foreign currency loans would amount to US$1.5 billion arising from scheduled repayments of external borrowings by the government.

In line with the practice adopted since April 2006, the data excludes projected foreign currency inflows arising from interest income and the drawdown of project loans amounting to US$3.14 billion in the next 12 months, BNM said.

“Long forward positions amounted to US$2.15 billion,” BNM said.            

It said the only contingent short-term net drain on foreign currency assets are government guarantees of foreign debt due within one year, amounting to US$228.0 million. ― Bernama