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Interest rates - reference rates.

ESTER is an interest rate calculated by the European Central Bank that reflects wholesale overnight borrowing costs for eurozone banks.

ESTER is an acronym for Euro Short Term Rate.

ESTER is also sometimes written as '€STR' or 'ESTR'.

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 ''Interest rates - reference rates.''
-ESTER is an acronym for Euro Short Term Rate.
+ESTER is an interest rate calculated by the European Central Bank that reflects wholesale overnight borrowing costs for eurozone banks.
-It is administered by the European Central Bank (ECB), with formal publication from October 2019.
-ESTER 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 ESTER for all products and contracts, making ESTER their standard reference rate.
+ESTER is an acronym for Euro Short Term Rate.
-ESTER is also sometimes written as '€STR'.
+ESTER is also sometimes written as '€STR' or 'ESTR'.
 ==See also==
 *[[Benchmark]]
-*[[EONIA]]
 *[[EURIBOR]]
 *[[Euro area]]
 *[[Euro LIBOR]]
 *[[European Central Bank]]
+*[[Eurozone]]
 *[[Fallback]]
 *[[O/N]]
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-==Other links==
+==Other link==
 [https://www.ecb.europa.eu/paym/initiatives/interest_rate_benchmarks/euro_short-term_rate/html/index.en.html European Central Bank Euro short term rate]
 [[Category:Accounting,_tax_and_regulation]]
 [[Category:Financial_products_and_markets]]