Malaysia’s foreign exchange coffers hold steady at US$124.1 billion as of November 28, 2025.
KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 5) — Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) reports no change in its international reserves, remaining at US$124.1 billion from two weeks prior, according to the central bank’s latest release on Friday.
This level represents the strongest reserve position since 2014, highlighting BNM’s ability to finance about 4.8 months of imports of goods and services and to cover roughly 0.9 times the country’s short‑term external debt.
Short‑term external borrowings are debts with maturities of one year or less. They primarily consist of foreign currency liquidity operations by resident banks, as well as borrowings by multinational corporations — including foreign banks — from their overseas parent entities.
Such borrowings are usually serviced with the borrowers’ own external assets in the ordinary course of business, and therefore do not place claims on BNM’s reserves.
Reserve breakdown shows foreign currency holdings rising slightly to US$109.8 billion from US$109.6 billion on November 14. The IMF reserve position remains at US$1.3 billion, while special drawing rights (SDRs) are unchanged at US$5.9 billion.
Gold reserves stay flat at US$4.8 billion. Other reserve assets ease a touch to US$2.3 billion from US$2.5 billion.
BNM publishes its international reserves data on a fortnightly basis.
Edited By Presenna Nambiar
