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''Interest rates - reference rates''.
The price for a foreign exchange transaction.


ESTER is an acronym for Euro Short TErm Rate.
Also known as the ''foreign exchange rate''.


It is administered by the European Central Bank (ECB), with formal publication scheduled from October 2019.
== See also ==
 
* [[Cross rates]]
 
* [[Foreign currency]]
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.
* [[Foreign exchange]]
 
* [[Forward foreign exchange rate]]
To assist transition, it is currently published as 'pre-ESTER' in the period up to October 2019.
* [[FRS 23]]
 
 
ESTER is also sometimes written as ''€STR'', using the € symbol.
 
 
==See also==
*[[Benchmark]]
*[[Euro area]]
*[[European Central Bank]]
*[[O/N]]
*[[Reference rate]]
*[[RFR]]
*[[Risk-free rates]]
*[[SONIA]]
 
 
==Other links==
[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]]

Revision as of 11:00, 4 July 2015

The price for a foreign exchange transaction.

Also known as the foreign exchange rate.

See also