As announced on March 15, 2020, the Board of Governors reduced reserve requirement ratios on net transaction accounts to 0 percent, effective March 26, 2020. This action eliminated reserve requirements for all depository institutions. As a result, many of the release items on the Board's Statistical Release H.3, "Aggregate Reserves of Depository Institutions and the Monetary Base," are zero. Consequently, the Board has decided to consolidate the remaining relevant items from the H.3 statistical release onto Statistical Release H.6, "Money Stock Measures."
The H.3 release items that will be consolidated onto the H.6 statistical release include the monetary base and nonborrowed reserves and their components. The components to be moved are (1) "Currency in circulation" and "Total balances maintained" for the monetary base and (2) "Total reserves" and "Total borrowings from the Federal Reserve" for nonborrowed reserves.
The last H.3 statistical release will be published on September 17, 2020. The first H.6 statistical release containing the monetary base and nonborrowed reserves will be published on September 24, 2020. On this same release, columns labeled "Traveler's checks" will be removed from the H.6 statistical release.
For a template of the first page of the consolidated H.6 statistical release, along with supplemental information on the consolidation, see the Technical Q&As associated with each release. Access to historical data for all H.3 release items will remain available through the Data Download Program (DDP). In addition, the H.3 release items being consolidated onto the H.6 statistical release will be available in the DDP in both the "build your own" and preformatted packages associated with the H.6 statistical release. Further refinements to the preformatted packages for the H.6 statistical release will also be made. The 12 "H.6 historical table" preformatted packages will no longer be available; all data elements of these packages are contained in the monthly or weekly "H.6 statistical release" packages.
