Central Bank: 1 Percentage Point Reduction For Small And Medium Banks

To support the development of the real economy, promote the support for small and medium-sized enterprises and reduce the actual cost of social financing, the people's Bank of China decided to reduce the deposit reserve ratio by 1 percentage points for rural credit cooperatives, rural commercial banks, rural cooperative banks, village banks and city commercial banks operating in provincial administrative regions only, two times in April 15th and May 15th. The implementation of the implementation of each time, down 0.5 percentage points, a total release of long-term funds of about 400 billion yuan. The people's Bank of China decided to reduce financial institutions' excess deposit reserve interest rate from 0.72% to 0.35% in April 7th.

The people's Bank of China has implemented a prudent monetary policy more flexibly. It has put the support for the recovery and development of the real economy in a more prominent position, paying attention to directional regulation and control, balancing the internal and external balance, maintaining a reasonable and abundant liquidity, and increasing the scale of money and credit and social financing, in line with economic development, so as to create an appropriate monetary and financial environment for high-quality development and supply side structural reform.

People's Bank of China relevant responsible person said: small and medium banks targeted to support real economic development.

Q: how can we further reduce the direction of small and medium banks to support the real economy?

A: the targeted reduction can release about 400 billion yuan of long-term funds. On average, each small and medium-sized bank can get a long-term capital of about 100 million yuan, effectively increasing the stable source of funds for the small and medium-sized banks to support the real economy, and also reducing the cost of bank capital by about 6 billion yuan per year. Through the transmission of banks, it will help to reduce the real interest rates of small and micro enterprises and private enterprises, and directly support the real economy. The targeted reduction in April 15th and May 15th were implemented in two places to prevent excessive release of disposable liquidity resulting in mobile siltation, and to ensure that all small and medium banks will get all the funds to invest in small and micro enterprises at lower interest rates. After the approval, more than 4000 small and medium-sized deposit financing institutions (including rural credit cooperatives, rural commercial banks, rural cooperative banks, village banks, financial companies, financial leasing companies and auto financing companies) have reduced their deposit reserve ratio to 6%. From the history of China and the developing countries, 6% of the deposit reserve ratio is relatively low.

Q: Why did the targeted drop target choose small and medium banks?

A: this orientation is directed towards small and medium-sized banks, including two types of institutions, one is rural credit cooperatives, rural commercial banks, rural cooperative banks, village banks and other rural financial institutions, and the other is urban commercial banks operating in provincial administrative regions only. There are nearly 4000 small and medium sized banks that get targeted funds. In the banking system, the number of households is 99%. The number is large and widely distributed. Based on the local and grassroots level, it is an important force in the service of small and medium enterprises. Further reducing the deposit reserve ratio of small and medium-sized banks will increase the financial strength of small and medium-sized banks, help to guide them to extend loans to small and medium enterprises with more favorable interest rates, expand credit related to agriculture, foreign trade and more serious industries affected by the epidemic, and enhance support for the recovery and development of the real economy.

Q: why does the central bank reduce the excess reserve rate?

Answer: excess reserve is a kind of money that a depository financial institution voluntarily stores in the central bank after it has paid the statutory reserve, which is controlled by the bank and can be used for liquidation and cash withdrawal at any time. The interest rate paid by the PBC to excess reserves is the excess reserve interest rate, which has not been adjusted since it was cut from 0.99% to 0.72% in 2008. The central bank lowered the excess reserve interest rate from 0.72% to 0.35%, which could promote banks to improve the efficiency of capital use and promote banks to better serve the real economy, especially small and medium-sized enterprises.