Domestic Market & Monetary Management Department   

 


Our Mission:


Our mission is to proactive, professional and effective management of foreign exchange & debt markets to contribute towards accomplishment of SBP’s mission to set DMMD as a performance benchmark for other departments of SBP.

Introduction:

Domestic Market & Monetary Management Department is a newly constituted department of State Bank of Pakistan. The idea of constitution of this department was to combine FX and money market activities under one roof, hence Securities department taking care of money market activities and Dealing room taking care of FX market activities were merged together on February 17, 2000.

Main Objectives

1. Monetary Operations.
2. Raising short term and long-term domestic debts for the Government.
3. Management of Government Debts
4. Providing funds to the financial institutions as lender of last resort.
5. Monitoring of money and FX market activities.
6. Intervention in the FX mark
et.
7. Reserve Management.

Organogram:

1. Local Foreign Exchange (FX) Division.
2. Local Money Market (MM) Division.
3. In house Reserve Management Division.
4. Outsourcing Reserve Management Division.
5. Government Securities Division.
6. Debt Management Division.
7. General Division

Functions of DMMD

The Primary functions of Domestic Market & Monetary Management Department fall into the following categories.

1. Exchange Rate Policy Management.

• Stable Exchange rates and Forward Premiums at appropriate/ sustainable levels
• Sale & Purchase of third currencies at optimum prices
• Smooth & sufficiently liquid Foreign Exchange Market
• Optimal accumulation of Foreign Exchange Reserves and Forward Portfolio

2. Monetary Policy Implementation.

• Maintenance of stable interest rates in inter-bank money market through proactive management of Money Market liquidity.
• Raising short-term government debt and developing yield curve through auction of Market treasury bills.
• Proactive management of Money Market Liquidity through Open Market Operations.
• Providing liquidity to the market through SBP 3 days repo facility.

3. Reserve Management.

• Optimal utilization of Reserve Portfolio and maximum returns on investment of surplus reserves. Hiring of investment consultant & Fund Managers for optimising returns.

4. Debt Management.

a) Domestic Debt
• Developing the markets for government securities.
• Coordination with monetary and Fiscal Policies.
• Raising short term and long term domestic debt for the government.
• Data base management of permanent and floating debts.

b) External Debt

• Monitoring and ensuring prompt payment of external debt instalments through State Bank of Pakistan and commercial banks.
• Management of FEBC, DBC, FCBC (3 & 5 yrs), Special US Dollar Bonds etc., through formulation and interpretation of rules and regulations governing these securities to ensure smooth functioning of the system.
• To generate reports on external debt, connectivity of Debt Management and Financial Analysis System (DMFAS) have been established between Eco. Affairs Division and SBP.


Money Market Monitoring (M-III)

Presentations
Presentation on Structuring Asian Bond Market From Demand Side case study-Pakistan by Mr.Muhammad Arif in Enhancing Financial Cooperation through Asian Bond Market Development seminar held at Bangkok, Thailand on March 25,2006

Draft for Comments - Government Securities Bill, 2006

   


 


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