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The Bank of Finland is Finland's monetary authority and a member of the Eurosystem.

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SUOMEN PANKKI
Snellmaninaukio
PO Box 160, 00101 Helsinki, Finland
Phone +358 10 8311

Vitamin D! The Devaluations of 1957 and 1967

Interest rates

ECB steering rate: 1.00%
(decided 7 May 2009)

Euribor rates	9 Feb 2010
1 month	0.421
3 month	0.661
12 month	1.227

Base rate 1.1.-30.06.2010: 1.25%
Penalty interest rate 1.1.-30.06.2010: 8%

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Exchange rates

Currency	8 Feb 2010
EUR/USD	1.3675
EUR/JPY	122.07
EUR/SEK	10.1616

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News

5.2.2010 | Governor Erkki Liikanen at Finnish Economic Association annual meeting in Tampere: Economics and economic policymakers facing new challenges

4.2.2010 | Monetary policy decisions

29.1.2010 | Annual growth of housing loans increased to 6.4% in December

29.1.2010 | Higher prices of high-risk financial assets boosted households’ financial assets in the third quarter of 2009

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Publications

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4.2.2010	Research Newsletter 1/2010
2.2.2010	Bonds gaining ground as a finance tool in Russia
26.1.2010	Financial market disturbances as sources of business cycle fluctuations in Finland
25.1.2010	Cross-border bank M&As and risk: evidence from the bond market
20.1.2010	Return from retail banking and payments

Events

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9.2.2010	How to read news about monetary policy
15.2.2010	Finland´s Balance of payments (monthly)
16.2.2010	Economist Seminar, 16 February 2010: Currency Carry Trades
26.2.2010	Template on International Reserves and Foreign Currency Liquidity
26.2.2010	Loans, deposits and interest rates

More about the Euro!

New tasks to test your skills on the Euro.fi website

The Bank of Finland and the Financial Supervision Authority have added new interactive tasks to the Euro.fi website. Statistics-oriented tasks guide the visitor in interpreting charts, while the tasks on loans and interest rates help understand the total costs involved in taking out a loan. The loan calculator can be used to test how big a loan you can afford to take out!