Liquid Reserves of Financial Institutions (April 2026)
Central Bank of the Republic of China (Taiwan)
PRESS RELEASE Release Date: May 28, 2026
Liquid Reserves of Financial Institutions (April 2026)
1. For the month of April 2026, liabilities subject to liquid reserve requirements totaled NT$52,862.8 billion, of which deposits totaled NT$51,983.5 billion accounting for 98.34% of the total. Based on the statutory minimum liquid reserve ratio of 10%, the required liquid reserves amounted to NT$5,286.3 billion.
2. For the month of April 2026, actual liquid reserve assets totaled NT$13,277.4 billion, representing an increase of NT$155.7 billion from the previous month. By category, the primary components were as follows (Table 1):
(1) Certificates of deposit issued by the Bank amounted to NT$5,543.9 billion accounting for 41.75% of the total, a decrease of NT$26.7 billion from the previous month.
(2) Government bonds stood at NT$2,350.8 billion accounting for 17.71% of the total, an increase of NT$9.1 billion from the previous month.
(3) Re-deposits at designated banks by financial institutions totaled NT$1,069.2 billion accounting for 8.05% of the total, a decrease of NT$3.2 billion from the previous month.
3. For the month of April 2026, the actual liquid reserve ratio of financial institutions was 25.12%, representing an increase of 0.10 percentage points from the previous month (Table 2).
