The Riksbank offers SEK loans on 16 January

On 20 October the Riksbank introduced a programme of recurrent auctions in order to offer SEK loans to the monetary counterparties. On Friday, 16 January, the Riksbank will offer the sixth loan within the programme, where the announced sum in the auction is SEK 40 billion. The loans are provided against collateral and have a maturity of 91 days, which means that repayment is due on 21 April 2009. A minimum interest is set at repo rate plus a supplement of 0.25 percentage points.

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