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Romania's three-month interbank offered rate ROBOR, which serves as benchmark for floating-rate loans in lei, has continued to rise on the inter-bank market, reaching 2.79 percent per year on Thursday, from 2.77 as recorded the day before, according to data of the National Bank of Romania (BNR).
According to central bank data, early this year the three-month ROBOR was 2.05 percent, whereas last year it was 0.91 percent.
As regards the 6-month ROBOR that is used for pricing mortgage loans went up to 2.92 percent from 2.89 percent, while the nine-month ROBOR - a measure of what banks charge each other for loans - inched up by 0.4 percentage points, to 2.98 percent. The 12-month ROBOR hit 3.03 percent from 3.01 percent on Wednesday.
