15/09/2020

Countercyclical buffer rate for the Republic of Serbia kept unchanged

At its meeting of 10 September 2020, the NBS Executive Board decided to keep the countercyclical capital buffer (CCyB) rate for the Republic of Serbia at 0%, in order to mitigate potential negative effects of the pandemic on the financing conditions of corporates and households.

As part of its responsibility to set measures and activities aimed at maintaining and strengthening financial stability, and based on the Decision on Capital Adequacy of Banks (RS Official Gazette, Nos 103/2016, 103/2018, 88/2019, 67/2020 and 98/2020), the NBS calculates on a quarterly basis the reference guide based on which it sets the CCyB rate for the Republic of Serbia.

The reference guide is calculated based on the deviation of the credit-to-GDP ratio from its long-term trend. June 2020 data show that the share of total loans in GDP equalled 82.8%, while the estimated credit-to-GDP gap was -0.7 pp. Though rising, the estimated credit-to-GDP gap is still below its long-term trend.
 
Additional information about the CCyB and the explanation for the above decision are available on the NBS website, under Financial Stability, Capital Buffers.

Financial Stability Department