Annual Update on SDR Trading Operations
Policy Papers, October 3, 2025
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Bibliographic details
- Published: October 3, 2025
- Series: Policy Papers
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9798229027175.007
Summary and scope
- This paper provides an update on the status of the Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) trading market and operations.
- The paper covers SDR trading operations during the period September 2024 to August 2025.
- Publication date listed: October 3, 2025.
Main findings on SDR trading practices
- For more than three decades, SDRs have exclusively been exchanged for freely usable currencies in transactions by agreement, primarily through the Voluntary Trading Arrangements (VTAs).
- A small fraction of transactions by agreement—sales or acquisitions of SDRs—has been arranged directly between parties.
- VTAs are bilateral arrangements between the Fund and SDR department participants or prescribed holders, in which the VTA participants agree to buy and sell SDRs within certain limits.
Subjects and keywords
- Subject: Currencies, Financial services, Freely usable currencies, International trade, Money, SDR interest rate, Trading arrangements
- Keywords: Currencies, Freely usable currencies, IMF-administered trust, SDR contribution, SDR interest rate, SDR sale, SDR trading activity, SDR trading capacity, Trading arrangements, VTA trading market