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€STR is an acronym for Euro Short Term Rate.
€STR is an acronym for Euro Short Term Rate.


It is administered by the European Central Bank (ECB), with formal publication scheduled from October 2019.
It is administered by the European Central Bank (ECB), with formal publication from October 2019.




€STR is designed to reflect the wholesale euro unsecured overnight borrowing costs of euro area banks, and to complement existing benchmark rates produced by the private sector, serving as a backstop reference rate.
€STR is designed to reflect the wholesale euro unsecured overnight borrowing costs of euro area banks, and to complement existing benchmark rates produced by the private sector, serving as a backstop reference rate.


The ECB has recommended that market participants replace EONIA with the €STR for all products and contracts, making €STR their standard reference rate.
The ECB recommends that market participants replace EONIA with the €STR for all products and contracts, making €STR their standard reference rate.




To assist transition, it is currently published as 'pre-€STR' in the period up to October 2019.
€STR is also sometimes written as 'ESTER'.
 
 
€STR is also sometimes written as 'ESTER', and similarly Pre-€STR is sometimes written as 'Pre-ESTER'.





Revision as of 13:06, 29 January 2020

Interest rates - reference rates.

€STR is an acronym for Euro Short Term Rate.

It is administered by the European Central Bank (ECB), with formal publication from October 2019.


€STR is designed to reflect the wholesale euro unsecured overnight borrowing costs of euro area banks, and to complement existing benchmark rates produced by the private sector, serving as a backstop reference rate.

The ECB recommends that market participants replace EONIA with the €STR for all products and contracts, making €STR their standard reference rate.


€STR is also sometimes written as 'ESTER'.


See also


Other links

European Central Bank Euro short term rate