Meeting between Finance Minister Bohumil Sobotka and CNB Governor Zdeněk Tůma – Topic: Foreign-currency bond issue

From today's meeting between Minister of Finance Sobotka and CNB Governor Tůma on the theme of the secured foreign-currency government bond issue on foreign markets under consideration, it emerges that the change in conditions on the financial market has eliminated the price differences between the secured foreign-currency issue and domestic financing.

Despite this fact, the CNB - taking into account the impacts on external debt indicators and the availability of alternative instruments (interest rate swaps and bonds with floating yield) - still prefers domestic market financing.

The final decision lies fully within the competence of the Czech Ministry of Finance.

Pavlína Bolfová, CNB's spokesperson