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€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 - or fallback - reference rate or primary 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' or 'ESTR'.
€STR is also sometimes written as 'ESTER'.




==See also==
==See also==
*[[Backstop]]
*[[Benchmark]]
*[[Benchmark]]
*[[EONIA]]
*[[EONIA]]

Latest revision as of 19:52, 15 October 2022

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 - or fallback - reference rate or primary reference rate.


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


See also


Other links

European Central Bank Euro short term rate