National Bank of Poland Joins the IMF’s Standing Borrowing Arrangements

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Press Release No. 11/421
November 18, 2011

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) announced today that the National Bank of Poland has joined the Fund’sNew Arrangements to Borrow (NAB)with immediate effect. The NAB is a standing set of credit lines under which now 37 members or their institutions have committed to provide supplementary resources to the IMF totaling up to SDR 366.1 billion (about US$573 billion

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). The National Bank of Poland’s commitment to the NAB is SDR 2.5 billion (about US$4 billion).

The NAB is supplementary to quota resources, which are made up of thequota subscriptionseach member pays upon joining the Fund and in the context of quota increases thereafter, broadly based on its relative size in the world economy. The IMF is a quota-based institution, and the Fund’s Board of Governors has emphasized that each member of the Fund commits to use its best efforts to complete the steps required to make the quota increase under the14th General Review of Quotaseffective no later than the Annual Meetings in 2012.

The expanded NAB became effective on March 11, 2011 (see Press ReleaseNo. 11/74) and since it was first activated on April 1, 2011, some SDR 28.6 billion have been committed to Fund-supported programs for which NAB resources could be drawn, and actual drawings under the NAB amounted toSDR 6.8 billion(US$11 billion). The NAB was most recently activated for the maximum period of six months commencing on October 1, 2011 (seePress Release No. 11/342).

Useful links

Factsheet: IMF Standing Arrangements to Borrow

April 1, 2011 Press Release on Activation of the expanded NAB

April 25, 2009 IMFC Communiqué

Factsheets:IMF Quotas;Where the Fund gets its Money

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