Asset Purchase Facility
Results
This page contains links to the results of individual operations for gilts and corporate bonds, as well as to longer-run time series for each of the APF schemes and facilities.
In line with the MPC’s most recent decision in relation to the asset purchase programme, the APF has purchased £200 billion of assets by the creation of central bank reserves. The APF continues to operate its corporate facilities, with purchases financed by the issue of Treasury bills and the DMO’s cash management operations.
The table below show the outstanding stock of holdings (on a settled basis, net of any redemptions) for each facility. For the corporate facilities, it also identifies how purchases were funded. These data are as at close Thursday 18 March 2010.
| Purchases financed by: | Issue of Treasury bills and the DMO's cash management operations | Creation of central bank reserves |
| Gilts | n/a | £198,275mn |
| Commercial Paper | £75mn | £55mn |
| Corporate Bonds | £23mn | £1,341mn |
| Secured Commercial Paper | £0mn | £0mn |
Quantitative Easing
A time series showing a running total of the quantity of assets purchased by the creation of central bank reserves is available in the Interactive Database (updated weekly on Fridays).
Commercial paper
Corporate bond
Gilts
Credit guarantee scheme
No operations have been conducted as yet.
