Short-Term Interbank Rates Close Steady On BNM Operations

KUALA LUMPUR, July 25 (Bernama) -- Short-term interbank rates ended steady today following Bank Negara Malaysia’s (BNM) operations to absorb surplus liquidity from the financial system.

Liquidity in the conventional system rose to RM17.0 billion from RM16.96 billion this morning, while liquidity in Islamic funds increased to RM30.4 billion from RM24.85 billion previously.

Earlier, the central bank conducted a reverse repo tender and an overnight reverse repo tender.

It also announced the availability of reverse repo, sell-and-buy-back agreements, and collateralised commodity murabahah facilities with tenures of one week, one month, and three months.

BNM also revised the murabahah overnight tender from RM24.9 billion to RM30.4 billion.

At 4 pm, BNM called for a RM17.0 billion conventional money market tender and a RM30.4 billion murabahah money market tender, both with three-day maturities.

The Malaysia Islamic Overnight Rate (MYOR-i) stood at 2.75 per cent as of July 24, 2025.

-- BERNAMA