
Published
11/03/2025, 11:30Despite the National Bank of Kyrgyzstan raising its discount rate to 10%, the cost of interbank lending has remained at around 4% since August 2024. This suggests that primary funding conditions for commercial banks remain stimulating, even with the formal tightening of monetary policy. This is according to analysts at the Eurasian Development Bank.
Experts note that the low interbank market rate may offset the effect of the increase in the discount rate and mitigate the regulator's impact on inflation, the target level of which is set at 5-7%.
At its October meeting, the National Bank also raised the overnight lending rate to 12% (from 11.25%) and kept the overnight deposit rate at 4%.



