Reserve Bank of New Zealand

NZ 90-day bank bill yield

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3.01%

+0.01 pp last change (21 Aug 2026)

As of 25 Aug 2026 | Daily

Mean
6.79%
Median
5.64%
Min
0.25% 30 Nov 2020
Max
27.40% 30 Sep 1985
DateRate
25 Aug 20263.01
31 Jul 20262.94
30 Jun 20262.72
29 May 20262.62
30 Apr 20262.63
31 Mar 20262.54
27 Feb 20262.49
30 Jan 20262.51
31 Dec 20252.52
28 Nov 20252.45
31 Oct 20252.52
30 Sep 20252.80
29 Aug 20253.01
31 Jul 20253.20
30 Jun 20253.29
30 May 20253.32
30 Apr 20253.43
31 Mar 20253.61
28 Feb 20253.76
31 Jan 20253.93
31 Dec 20244.17
29 Nov 20244.36
31 Oct 20244.52
30 Sep 20244.87

About the 90-day bank bill

Wholesale yield on three-month bank paper, recorded by the RBNZ (B2). Latest daily: 3.01% on 25 Aug 2026. The RBNZ does not set this rate; markets do.

History uses INM.DB03.N (1985–2017) and INM.DB03.NZZV (2018–). Chart and long-run stats use month-ends. From 31 Jan 1985 to 25 Aug 2026: mean 6.79%, median 5.64%; low 0.25% (30 Nov 2020), high 27.40% (30 Sep 1985).

Source: RBNZ Wholesale interest rates (B2), 90-day bank bill. Licence: RBNZ statistics terms: republication permitted with attribution to the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (terms). Files: data/raw/hb2-daily-1985-2017.xlsx (INM.DB03.N) + data/raw/hb2-daily-close.xlsx (INM.DB03.NZZV).

Reading this series

The 90-day bank bill is a wholesale market yield on short-dated bank paper, recorded by the Reserve Bank of New Zealand in its B2 wholesale tables. Nobody sets it: it reflects what banks and investors are willing to pay for three-month bank funding, so it moves continuously with expectations for the OCR and with market conditions. The history is spliced from two official files — series INM.DB03.N for 1985 to 2017 and INM.DB03.NZZV for 2018 onward — and the page states which file supplied each stretch. The latest daily print is the headline, while the chart and the long-run statistics use month-ends so the browser is not asked to plot every trading day.

Read the current value together with the "versus the previous reading" line to see the direction of the last move, then use Chart and Table for the same data two ways. The mean, median, low and high are arithmetic summaries of the monthly observations in this build, not official aggregates. Range buttons filter the drawn window, and Explore adds zoom and pan only when you ask for it. A bank-bill yield is a market reference, not a mortgage or deposit rate.

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The Taiwan desk leads with the CBC discount rate, the policy rate set by the Central Bank of the Republic of China (Taiwan), then US, Japan and Korea rates, with the rest following. The discount rate is read from the CBC Statistical Database as series EG28D01en and drawn as daily steps: the rate is flat between board meetings and changes on decision dates. It is a policy instrument, not a mortgage or deposit rate.

All desks show the same build-wide series in a different order, so the numbers here match the hub. Values are republished from official files without alteration and each page names the source and licence. The build ingests no Taiwanese retail rate series, so those pages are absent rather than estimated. This is not financial advice, and readings may lag their source.