RUONIA Rate Drops to 14.85% on Monday, Benchmark for Floaters

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RUONIA, a benchmark rate for floating-rate bonds, dropped to 14.85% on Monday.

RUONIA:

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

- is 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 14.77%.

RUSFAR ON CNY (overnight, yuan) was 13.86% on the first day of the week.

RUSFAR serves as a key benchmark:

- indicates the level of rates in the Russian money market,

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

- 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 rate for unsecured overnight ruble lending, 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 a central counterparty), calculated by the Moscow Exchange for different terms (ON, 1M, 3M, etc.). The main difference: RUONIA is an unsecured rate, while RUSFAR is a rate for secured transactions. 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 "Higher School of Management" at the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation.