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March 21 – March 27, 2016

Lower discount rate may help Belarusian state-owned enterprises to reduce loan servicing costs

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On April 1st, 2016, the National Bank’s discount rate will be reduced from 25% to 24% due to lower inflation expectations. In order to further reduce the cost of loans, reserve payments on attracted funds in national currency will be reduced to 7.5% from 8% and the upper margin for the interest rate on loans in the national currency will be set at 33% per annum. These measures will reduce the cost of loan servicing, for both, standard and soft loans. In addition, legal entities are likely to lose interest in short-term national currency deposits. However, the overall volume of loans is unlikely to increase to due to the economic slowdown and significant arrears on payments for delivered goods and services. Lower discount rate is likely to reduce people’s interest in rouble deposits.

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