February 3, 2003
Bank of Japan
Financial Markets Department

The Bank of Japan introduced one new item, "Repo (repurchase agreement) rate" to the statistics of "Repo Rate (indication, aggregated)". Former General Collateral (GC) repo rate has been renamed GC repo (gentan) rate. Former Special Collateral (SC) repo rate has been renamed SC repo (gentan) rate.

For further information, please contact
Open Market Operations Division, Financial Markets Department
Hideki Takezawa (Tel: +81-3-3277-1284)