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Bank of England: Securities Portfolio

Data as of · Call Report Schedule RC-B How we update

The investment portfolio: what the bank owns, how it is split between available-for-sale and held-to-maturity, and the unrealized gain or loss sitting in it. Unrealized losses on held-to-maturity securities do not run through capital, which is why the ratio to equity is worth watching.

Securities to total assets climbed 5.91 percentage points in Q2 2026, from 44.29% to 50.21%. It was the largest change from Q1 2026 among the key lines here.

Portfolio size

Portfolio size for Bank of England, Q2 2026
Line item Q2 2026
Total securities $166.8M
Available-for-sale securities $145.1M
Held-to-maturity securities $21.8M
Trading account assets $0
Municipal securities $21.8M
Securities to total assets 50.21%

Portfolio mix

Portfolio mix for Bank of England, Q2 2026
Line item Q2 2026
Available-for-sale share of securities 86.94%
Held-to-maturity share of securities 13.06%
Pledged share of securities 21.09%

Unrealized gains and losses

Unrealized gains and losses for Bank of England, Q2 2026
Line item Q2 2026
Unrealized gain/(loss), available-for-sale -$1.6M
Unrealized gain/(loss), held-to-maturity -$2.1M
Total unrealized gain/(loss) -$3.7M
Unrealized gain/(loss) to equity -5.73%

Carrying value less fair value. A negative figure is an unrealized loss: the position is worth less than the balance sheet carries it at.

Securities earnings

Securities earnings for Bank of England, Q2 2026
Line item Q2 2026
Yield on securities 4.21%
Realized gain/(loss) on securities $0
Realized gain/(loss), available-for-sale $0
Realized gain/(loss), held-to-maturity $0

Securities Portfolio trend

Last 12 quarters as filed. Every value plotted here also appears in the tables above.

Available-for-sale vs held-to-maturity
Unrealized gain/(loss) to equity

Negative bars are unrealized losses measured against equity capital.

Yield on securities

Securities Portfolio by quarter

Values plotted above, Bank of England, oldest first
Quarter Available-for-saleHeld-to-maturityUnrealized G/(L) to equityYield on securities
Q3 2023 $76.8M $15.3M -7.45% 2.18%
Q4 2023 $71.3M $15.3M -4.76% 3.95%
Q1 2024 $59.4M $14.7M -4.96% 3.67%
Q2 2024 $55.8M $15.2M -4.76% 3.31%
Q3 2024 $65.1M $16.2M -3.80% 3.41%
Q4 2024 $83.0M $15.7M -5.43% 4.50%
Q1 2025 $123.5M $17.7M -4.99% 4.02%
Q2 2025 $125.8M $18.0M -5.47% 4.58%
Q3 2025 $124.5M $19.3M -3.94% 4.40%
Q4 2025 $115.5M $21.3M -3.55% 4.20%
Q1 2026 $123.0M $22.7M -5.87% 4.10%
Q2 2026 $145.1M $21.8M -5.73% 4.21%

Bank of England securities portfolio, all the way back

Securities Portfolio back to 2001 · peer percentiles on every line item · Excel export

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Source: Call Report Schedule RC-B, as filed with the FFIEC and standardized by BankRegReports. Dollar amounts are as reported, point-in-time; income statement items are year-to-date through the report date. See the full Bank of England profile, peer group comparison, or how this data updates.

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