BANKS’ interest on the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas’s (BSP) longer-term deposit auction facilities started to wane anew on Wednesday, but the central bank still decided to keep its auction volumes for next week.
The monetary board decided to still offer a total of P100 billion in term deposits for next week — P40 billion under its seven-day term deposit facility, another P40 billion for its 14-day TDF and P20 billion for its 28-day TDF.
This volume setting has been in place since the start of June this year.
BSP officials earlier said that aside from monetary policy-rate changes, the monetary board could also steer their monetary policy direction by allowing the market determined TDF rates to rise or fall.
The BSP does this by altering auction volumes.
Rates during the week showed mixed movements, with the short-term facility fetching a lower rate while the medium- and long-term facility hit higher rates.
In the 7-day facility, in particular, bids on Wednesday hit P58.282 billion covering more than the P40 billion offered by the BSP for the week. This yielded a 3.6979-percent rate during the week, lower than last week’s 3.7006 percent.
For the 14-day facility, tenders fell scarce of the P40 billion offered for the week at P39.095 billion. This fetched a 3.7222-percent rate, up from the previous week’s 3.6916 percent.
The same is true for the 28-day facility, where bids hit P15.78 billion covering only 79 percent of the P20 billion offered for the week. The rate in this facility was also up to 3.7264 percent, from the 3.7179 percent in the previous week.