Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group 2021 Financial Overview
BOJ's initial monetary policy responses to COVID-19
BOJ's initiative to support the Japanese economy
• Measures to facilitate corporate financing
•Temporary increase in purchase of CP and corporate bonds
•Introduction of special funds-supplying operation by facilitating banks to extend loans to companies
affected by COVID-19
• FX liquidity support to banks
Enhance the provision of liquidity via the standing USD liquidity swap line arrangements, in coordination
with 6 major central banks
• Stabilizing financial markets
Further active purchases of ETFs & J-REIT as well as JGBs & T-Bills
Initiatives
CP/Corporate Bond Purchase
Special funds-supplying operations
("SFSO")*1
USD Funds-Supplying Operations
ETF/J-REIT purchase
JGBS & T-Bills purchase
Notes with most recent update
JPY 20tn holding limit and up to 5yr maturity until Mar. 2021 (increase from JPY 5.4tn and up to 3yr maturity)
=> Extended till Mar. 2022
New scheme introduced in Mar. 2021 where BOJ set applied interest rate/incentive for categories as following;
0.2% for Category I, 0.1% for Category II and 0% for Category III. Category I is loans through SFSO by financial
institutions themselves, Category II is loans through SFSO including private debt pledged as collateral and
Category III is loans through Loan Support Program (Including Climate Response Financing Operations).
At OIS +25bps (cut by 25bps) and for 1-week maturity operations (84 days maturity operation was
discontinued as of July 1st 2021)
Increase of the purchase amounts at annual paces of up to about JPY 12tn and about JPY 180bn, respectively for
the time being. (In principle, about JPY 6tn and JPY 90bn)
=> Maintaining the same annual pace increase
Purchasing a necessary amounts of JGBS without setting an upper limit for 10-year JGB yields with yield fluctuation
range of +/-0.25% to remain at around zero percent. (Previously purchase at an annual pace of holding amounts
increase up to about JPY 80tn)
*1 Special Funds-Supplying Operations to Facilitate Financing in Response to the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Source Bank of Japan
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