In terms of Para 6 of the Prudential Regulation O-5 for Corporate and Commercial Banking, banks/DFIs are required to ensure that their foreign currency deposits mobilized under FE-25 scheme, after netting-off the deposits utilized to finance trade related activities such as financing against Import and Export documents, should not at any point exceed twenty percent of the local
currency deposits of the banks at the close of business on the last working day of the preceding quarter.
Some banks have approached State Bank of Pakistan seeking clarification about computation of captioned Percentage. In this regard it is clarified that following codes of Weekly Statement of Position (WSP) and Quarterly Statement
of Position (QSP) are being used to calculate this percentage:

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