The central bank kept the interest rate for its deposit facility at 1% a year and raised the interest for its (Lombard) lending facility to 3% a year from 2.5% a year, applicable as of January 11, the central bank said in a statement.
It also decided to maintain the existing levels of minimum reserve requirement ratios on both leu- and foreign currency-denominated liabilities of credit institutions.
The bank also extended the symmetric corridor of interest rates on standing facilities around the policy rate to ±1.00 percentage point from ±0.75 percentage points.