FX rates 31.12.2024
All FX rates
EUR - 25.185 CZK
USD - 24.237 CZK
GBP - 30.378 CZK

Payment statistics for 2024 H1

The CNB has published a detailed commentary on payment statistics for 2024 H1. It covers above all data on non-cash transactions such as the number of cards, outgoing payments and direct debits, the number of card transactions using terminals, the volume of credit transfers and the volume of ATM withdrawals. However, it also includes data on over-the-counter cash withdrawals and deposits.

Jakub Matějů to head the Macroeconomic Forecasting Division

Jakub Matějů, Deputy Executive Director of the Monetary Department of the Czech National Bank (CNB), has been appointed Acting Director of the department’s Macroeconomic Forecasting Division from 1 January 2025. The CNB Bank Board made this decision at its meeting on 5 December.

Effective 1 January 2025, the PRIBOR rates will be published with a 48-hour delay

Effective 1 January 2025, the PRIBOR rates shown on the CNB website will be published with a 48-hour delay. They may only be used in accordance with the conditions published by the Czech Financial Benchmark Facility s.r.o. (CFBF), the administrator of the PRIBOR benchmark.

CNB Board decisions

Transcript of the questions and answers from the press conference

Global Economic Outlook 12/2024 is out now

The December issue of Global Economic Outlook presents the regular monthly overview of recent and expected developments in selected territories. The analytical part of this issue examines how events like the global financial crisis, the Covid-19 pandemic, the security crisis and the subsequent energy crisis have manifested themselves in the degree of (mis)alignment of individual parts of the financial market of selected countries.

CNB Board decisions

Statement of the Bank Board and presentation for the press conference

Read CNB Governor Aleš Michl’s selected speeches and interviews in which he explains how the central bank is fighting inflation and what steps it is taking to achieve price stability.

The older 1995–1999 versions of Czech banknotes have ceased to be legal tender. How can you identify the invalid banknotes most easily and where can you exchange them?

The CNB has prepared a web portal devoted to its financial and economic literacy activities for the public.

Read the CNB’s regular and occasional publications.

Key rates

3.00%

Discount Rate

4.00%

2W Repo Rate

5.00%

Lombard Rate

Inflation

2.8%

November 2024

CNB current forecast

2.5%

Inflation 2024

2.6%

Inflation 2025

1.0%

GDP 2024

2.4%

GDP 2025

Capital buffer rates

1.25%

CCyB rate

0.5%

SyRB rate

2.5%

O-SIImax rate

Limits on credit ratios

80%

LTV

– –

DTI

– –

DSTI

Golden Rules for Bureau-de-Change Clients

  1. Change money only at designated bureaux de change. Before changing money, carefully read all the information given on the exchange rate list.
  2. The terms “purchase and sale of foreign currency” and the corresponding exchange rates, i.e. the information about the direction of the exchange, are given from the bureau de change’s perspective...

More about ten golden rules

CNB resumes operation of services at its branches

  • All branches and regional offices of the Czech National Bank will return to full operation, five days a week, from Monday, 14 December 2020.
  • The standard opening hours for CNB clients and the public will be Monday to Friday from 7.30 am to 2.00 pm, with a lunch break from 11.30 am to 12.30 pm.
  • Before your visit, you can check the opening hours for each of our offices on the CNB website (Prague, Brno, Ostrava, Plzeň, Hradec Králové, České Budějovice and Ústí nad Labem).