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Foreign currency MRR rate

Monetary Policy Rates › Minimum Reserve RquirementMonthlyPer cent

Latest
7.5%
Sep 2026
On a year earlier
+2.50 pp
same period last year
Five-year average
7.42%
On five years ago
+2.50 pp

The whole record

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Source: Maldives Monetary Authority, via the Maldives Monetary Authority statistics database.

What the numbers say

Short term

The latest readings
  • The latest figure is 7.5% for Sep 2026, up 2.5 percentage points from Aug 2026 and up 2.5 percentage points on the same month a year earlier.
  • The change on a year earlier averaged +0.83 pp over the last three months, against −2.50 pp in the three months before: the year-on-year change has turned positive.

Long term

The record as a whole
  • It has averaged 7.42% over the past five years and 8.02% over ten; the latest figure is 0.08 pp above the five-year average.

How to read this series

Interest and policy rates. The rates the central bank sets (its policy rate, the reserve requirements and its standing facilities) and the average rates commercial banks charge on loans in rufiyaa and in foreign currency.

  • Changes in a rate or ratio are given in percentage points, the plain difference between two readings.
  • Recent periods are often revised as fuller data arrive. The version comparison below shows what MMA has changed since this site began keeping copies.

Terms such as percentage points, flows and stocks, and trend growth are explained in How to read the tracker.

Revisions

Every copy of this series held by this site, overlaid, with the size of the latest revision for each period.

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Lines: each version of the series held by this site, newest solid. Bars: the newest version minus the one before it, for periods present in both.
Stored versions of Foreign currency MRR rate
2 (current)26 Oct 202620 Oct 2026Feb 1982 – Sep 2026100
16 Oct 202623 Sep 2026Feb 1982 – Aug 2026———

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Every observation of Foreign currency MRR rate
Sep 20267.5%+2.50 pp
Aug 20265%0.00 pp
Jul 20265%0.00 pp
Jun 20265%−2.50 pp
May 20265%−2.50 pp
Apr 20265%−2.50 pp
Mar 20265%−2.50 pp
Feb 20265%−2.50 pp
Jan 20265%−2.50 pp
Dec 20255%−2.50 pp
Nov 20255%−2.50 pp
Oct 20255%−2.50 pp
Sep 20255%−5.00 pp
Aug 20255%−5.00 pp
Jul 20255%−5.00 pp
Jun 20257.5%−2.50 pp
May 20257.5%−2.50 pp
Apr 20257.5%−2.50 pp
Mar 20257.5%−2.50 pp
Feb 20257.5%−2.50 pp
Jan 20257.5%−2.50 pp
Dec 20247.5%−2.50 pp
Nov 20247.5%−2.50 pp
Oct 20247.5%−2.50 pp
Sep 202410%0.00 pp
Aug 202410%0.00 pp
Jul 202410%0.00 pp
Jun 202410%0.00 pp
May 202410%0.00 pp
Apr 202410%0.00 pp

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About this series

Source
Maldives Monetary Authority
Published by
MMA Statistics Database, series 2796
MMA table
Financial Sector › Monetary Policy Rates › Minimum Reserve Rquirement
Coverage
Feb 1982 to Sep 2026 · 536 observations
MMA updated
20 Oct 2026
Last checked
28 Oct 2026

The analysis is calculated by Good Morning Maldives from the published figures; it describes the data and is not a forecast.