We are also in the final stages of fitting out a recently completed storage facility with automated banknote processing equipment. The facility – which is several kilometres north of Melbourne's CBD – will more than double our existing storage capacity and increase our processing capacity by around 50 per cent. Expenditures on printing equipment, secure storage and processing are significant investments.
2017 EUR CHF Other  Furthermore, owing to the effects of past monetary policy easing, a reduced country risk premium, low interest rates in the international money market and higher interbank competition, the conditions of private sector financing were even more favourable in the fourth quarter.