EnglishRomania"s Central Bank attracted over 200 million lei from three banks, which were placed in deposits with a 1-week maturity, specifically July 27, for which it will pay an interest rate of 9%, matching the policy rate.
Last week, the Central Bank attracted another 1.9 billion lei, from nine banks and placed the money in deposits with the maturity set for July 24th, with an interest rate of 9% a year.
From January until March, the NBR did not attract any funds from the domestic banks, however, in April, it attracted an average of 103.3 million lei a day, for which it paid 10% a year. In May, the NBR did not attract any new deposits.
In turn, in the first five months of 2009, Romania"s National Bank has performed increasingly frequent REPO operations by which it injected liquidity into the market. The average daily volume of REPO operations performed by the NBR for injecting liquidity into the system increased from 274.6 million lei in January, to a maximum of 811.4 million lei in April, and later dropped to 643.8 million lei in May. The interest rates for REPO operations followed a downward trend, tracking the cuts of the policy rate.
The average interest rate for overnight attracted deposits (ROBID) was 7.01% per year, up over the value of the previous session, of 5.88% a year, and for overnight placed deposits (ROBOR), the interest rate rose to 7.51% per year, over Friday"s 6.38% per year.
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