Romania's three-month interbank offered rate ROBOR, which serves as benchmark for floating-rate loans in lei, climbed on Monday to 2.85 percent from 2.83 percent on May 31.
According to central bank data, early this year the three-month ROBOR was 2.05 percent, whereas in the similar period last year it was 0.86 percent.
The 6-month ROBOR that is used for pricing mortgage loans leapt to 2.96 percent from 2.94 percent, while the nine-month ROBOR - a measure of what banks charge each other for loans - climbed to 3.02 percent, and the 12-month ROBOR inched up to 3.07 percent from 3.05 percent on May 31.