CNB keeps interest rates unchanged

The CNB Bank Board decided at its meeting today to keep interest rates unchanged. The two-week repo rate was maintained at 0.75%, the discount rate at 0.25% and the Lombard rate at 1.75%.

The history of settings of main instruments of monetary policy and Bank Board minutes available at
https://www.cnb.cz/en/monetary-policy/instruments/#mpi
/en/monetary-policy/bank-board-decisions/index.html

Repo rate: The CNB’s key monetary policy rate, paid on commercial banks’ excess liquidity as withdrawn by the CNB in two-week repo tenders.

Discount rate: A monetary policy rate which as a rule represents the floor for short-term money market interest rates. The CNB applies it to the excess liquidity which banks deposit with the CNB overnight under the deposit facility.

Lombard rate: A monetary policy interest rate which provides a ceiling for short-term interest rates on the money market. The CNB applies it to the liquidity which it provides to banks overnight under the lending facility.

Marek Petruš, CNB spokesman