Auction rate security

As widely expected, the Central Bank has kept its main policy rate, the one-week repo auction rate, unchanged at 50 percent for a fifth straight month.

Bulgaria will hold the second for 2021 bond sale auction on February 22, 2021. The Bulgarian National Bank will then hold an auction for the sale of the securities, the central bank reports.

Property auctions by banks slowed down considerably in March, amid the government's negotiations with the country's creditors over the protection of borrowers' primary residences, while the same trend appears to have continued into April, ahead of the activation of the new platform for that purpose.

The Turkish Central Bank has announced it will increase the daily foreign exchange auction amount on Sept. 29 to $40 million, from a minimum of $10 million