EghtesadOnline: Interbank rates continued to climb last week reaching the highest in two years.
EghtesadOnline: The Central Bank of Iran says it will continue to control rates in the interbank market in line with the government’s declared policy to support the capital market.
EghtesadOnline: Data released by the Central Bank of Iran indicate that banks handled transactions worth almost 775.3 trillion rials ($3.2 billion) a day at the interbank market in the previous fiscal year (March 2020-21).
EghtesadOnline: Data released by the Central Bank of Iran indicate that banks handled transactions worth almost 775.3 trillion rials ($3.2 billion) a day at the interbank market in the previous fiscal year (March 2020-21).
EghtesadOnline: The Central Bank of Iran again raised the lower bound of interest rate corridor (IRC) in the interbank market to further narrow the interbank interest rate spread.
EghtesadOnline: The government sold 30.4 trillion rials ($132 million) in Islamic bonds in the interbank and stock market during the weekly auction on Tuesday. As per an earlier announcement, it was to offer Murabeha bonds worth 50 trillion rials ($217m).
EghtesadOnline: Iran and Russia are still discussing integrating interbank transaction networks, Russia's Mir and Iran's Shetab, to ease transactions between the people and businesses of the two countries, an official with Iran's Trade Promotion Organization said.
EghtesadOnline: In bid to further narrow the rate spread in the interest rate corridor (IRC) the Central Bank of Iran announced that it would raise rates on interbank deposits by 1 percentage points to 13% starting today (Saturday).
EghtesadOnline: A survey of Iran’s interbank market in the past 10 years shows that it was steady from 2008 to 2014 in terms of both volume and value of deals before rising sharply from 2015 onwards.
EghtesadOnline: The Central Bank of Iran will hold its first auction of government bonds on Tuesday. It has asked banks to place buy orders for the Murabeha bonds on the interbank trading platform.