NBR: keep the monetary policy rate unchanged at 5.25

In its meeting of 5 February 2013, the Board of the National Bank of Romania decided the following:

• to keep the monetary policy rate unchanged at 5.25 percent per annum; 
• to ensure adequate liquidity management in the banking system; and
• to maintain the existing levels of minimum reserve requirement ratios on both leu and foreign currency-denominated liabilities of credit institutions.

The NBR Board has examined and approved the quarterly Inflation Report, which will be released to the public in a press conference on 7 February 2013.