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According to the Bank’s website, the Local Currency (LCY) and Capital Markets Development Initiative (the Initiative) aims to promote the use of local currencies and develop local capital markets in the EBRD region. High levels of foreign currency use, especially foreign currency lending to unhedged borrowers without adequate financial buffers, in most countries of the EBRD region creates significant macro prudential risks contributing to excessive economic cyclicality, disproportionately affecting the poor.
The EBRD is committed to address these issues by providing local currency loans where possible. This has been challenging in emerging countries where LCY funding markets are underdeveloped and other (off-shore) sources of funding are scarce or unavailable. Lack of developed LCY markets and benchmark interest rates make it necessary to base such fixed LCY interest rate pricing on projection of country-level macroeconomic variables and investors` risk preferences. More specifically, pricing LCY rates at different tenors whilst running interest rate risk necessitates the use of an interest rate swap (IRS) pricing model based on projections of country-level macroeconomic variables and risk preference modelling for different tenors.
In early transition countries - Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Moldova, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan - where LCY markets are underdeveloped, market based curves (for various products, e.g. IRS and XCCY swaps) are either non-existent or do not provide good price discovery. As a result, this impedes LCY usage and impairs market development. The projection of such country-level macroeconomic variables can be made possible by the help of Forecasting and Policy Analysis System (FPAS) models, as well as employing risk compensating yield curves models, which are based on the macroeconomic projections derived from the (semi theoretical, semi-market based) FPAS models.
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