Resource Center

Statistics

1. Securities data:
   1. U.S. Transactions in long-term securities: (monthly data; covers U.S. and foreign securities).
   2. Special monthly data: (1) on U.S. securities, including Major Foreign Holders of Treasuries (mfh table), Press release historical data, ABS repayments, Net purchases by sector); and (2) on Foreign securities.
   3. Annual Holdings of U.S. securities; Holdings of Foreign securities
      (annual data, long-term & short-term securities).
   4. (started 5-15-2012). Holdings (monthly) of long-term U.S. securities; Holdings of long-term foreign securities.
   5. Holdings (monthly) of short-term U.S. securities; Holdings of short-term foreign securities.
   
   
2. Banking Data - monthly Liabilities to, and Claims on, foreign-residents. (includes short-term securities.)
   
   
3. Derivatives Contracts - quarterly Holdings and Net Cash Settlements with foreign-residents.
   
   
4. Nonbanking Data - quarterly Liabilities to, and Claims on, unaffiliated foreign-residents.
   
   
5. Quarterly data on U.S. Gross External Debt.
   
   

Forms & Instructions for data providers

1. TIC monthly & quarterly reports: B, C, D, S and SLT forms.
   
   
2. TIC annual & benchmark reports: SHL/SHLA and SHC/SHCA.

News

1. NEW (10-31-2012). The final Report on U.S. Portfolio Holdings of Foreign Securities at End-year 2011 is available, along with the press release dated October 31, 2012, on part B of the securities (c) webpage.
   
   
2. (5-24-2012) The Federal Reserve Board published an article providing a more complete description of the SLT data and its relationship to other TIC securities data: Improving the Measurement of Cross-Border Securities Holdings: The Treasury International Capital SLT (PDF). In the wake of the financial crisis, growing interest in improving the measurement of cross-border securities positions spurred the introduction of a new Treasury International Capital (TIC) reporting form, the TIC SLT. This article reviews the existing structure of TIC cross-border position and flow data, the benefits that the new SLT can provide, and the incoming information from the first two reporting months of SLT data, September and December 2011. While some patterns and characteristics of the SLT data will become clear only after more data have accumulated, the SLT data have already begun to provide timely insights on U.S. and foreign cross-border investment flows that are different from the monthly estimates provided by existing flow data.
   -- (5-15-2012). The Treasury Department began publishing on May 15, 2012 a new data series on cross-border holdings of long-term securities on the Treasury International Capital (TIC) reporting system website. The new data is available on a new TIC webpage (http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/tic/Pages/ticsec3.aspx). The new data provides information on six broad types of long-term securities – foreign porfolio holdings of U.S. Treasury securities, U.S. agencies, U.S. corporate bonds and U.S. equities, and U.S. portfolio holdings of foreign bonds and foreign equities. Additional information on the new data is included in the May 15 monthly TIC press release.
   
   
3. (4-30-2012). The Final Report (PDF) on Foreign Portfolio Holdings of U.S. Securities at End-June 2011 is available. The Press Release was dated April 30, 2012 and is available, along with the reports on previous surveys, on the securities(c) webpage.
   -- In addition, the table on Major Foreign Holders of U.S. Treasury Securities is unchanged from the table released on April 16 because there were no revisions from the preliminary survey data released on February 29 on Treasury securities.
   -- In addition, revised data were released on payments of ABS principal for the period July 2010-Feb 2012, based in part on the end-June 2011 survey data.
   
   
4. Press Release (monthly; with historical data).
   -- Quarterly Analysis & Charts (PDF) on TIC securities and banking data are released with monthly data in February, May, August and November.
   -- FAQs on lines in the press release data table.