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Financial Statements<br />
Subitem 2.2 Balances with banks<br />
and security investments, external loans<br />
and other external assets covers the following<br />
accounts:<br />
Dec. 31, 2003 Dec. 31, <strong>2004</strong> Change<br />
EUR million EUR million EUR million %<br />
Balances with banks 1,212.263 861.379 —350.884 —28.9<br />
Securities 4,315.000 4,000.386 —314.614 —7.3<br />
Other external assets 5.279 4.983 —0.296 —5.6<br />
Total 5,532.542 4,866.748 —665.794 —12.0<br />
Balances with banks outside the<br />
euro area include foreign currency<br />
deposits on correspondent accounts,<br />
deposits with agreed maturity and<br />
overnight funds. Securities relate to<br />
instruments issued by non-euro area<br />
residents. As a rule, operations are<br />
carried out only with financially<br />
sound counterparties.<br />
3 Claims on euro area residents<br />
denominated in foreign currency<br />
Claims on euro area residents denominated<br />
in foreign currency are as follows:<br />
Dec. 31, 2003 Dec. 31, <strong>2004</strong> Change<br />
EUR million EUR million EUR million %<br />
Balances with banks 365.854 286.195 —79.659 —21.8<br />
Securities 510.912 460.414 —50.498 —9.9<br />
Total 876.766 746.609 —130.157 —14.8<br />
90 ×<br />
<strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>2004</strong>
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