KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan has made a payment of over $800 million for debt servicing to various banks and countries during the week ended 26th June-2020.
SBP received around $2,046 million official inflows, including $737 million from World Bank, $503 million from Asian Development Bank, $500 million from Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, and $300 million as GOP loan disbursement from China.
The fresh outflows and inflows of foreign exchange settled its position at $17.971 billion on 26-June-2020 with SBP’s reserves at $11.231 billion and commercial banks holding $6.740 billion.
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In the next few days after June 26th, SBP also received an additional $1 billion as GOP loan disbursement from China, increasing the reserves to $18.97 billion.
Due to the heavy inflow of loans, the position of the Rupee against Dollar saw improvement in recent days which is likely to be stable in the next few weeks.
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