RUONIA Benchmark Rate Drops to 15.25% on Monday

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RUONIA rate, a benchmark for floating-rate bonds, dropped to 15.25% on Monday.

RUONIA reflects:

- the average cost of overnight ruble loans in the interbank market,

- calculated daily by the Bank of Russia based on transactions of the top 35 banks.

On Monday, the RUSFAR ON RUB (overnight, rubles) rate stood at 15.28%.

RUSFAR ON CNY (overnight, yuan) was 7.47% on the first day of the week.

RUSFAR serves as a key indicator:

- it shows the level of rates in the Russian money market,

- it is formed based on the average values of repo transactions with the central counterparty,

- it is included in the list of financial indicators approved by the Bank of Russia.

It is important to note that RUONIA (Ruble Overnight Index Average) is the unsecured overnight lending rate in rubles, calculated by the Bank of Russia based on transactions of the top 35 banks, while RUSFAR (Russian Secured Funding Average Rate) is the secured funding rate (repo with the central counterparty), calculated by Moscow Exchange for different terms (ON, 1M, 3M, etc.). The main difference is that RUONIA is an unsecured rate, while RUSFAR is a secured rate, but both are key indicators of the cost of money in the market and are used for floating rates in bonds.

This overview was presented by Alexey Grishchenko, Ph.D., Professor at the Department of Operational and Sectoral Management of the Faculty of "Higher School of Management" at the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation.