Ekonomski odnosi Slovenije s tujino, januar 2024 © Banka Slovenije

Report on External Statistics, January 2024

03/15/2024 / Publications

After two months of the deficit, the external trade in goods balance again recorded a surplus (EUR 0.1 billion), but both exports and imports of goods declined year-on-year. Service trade maintained a similar level of surplus (EUR 0.3 billion), while primary and secondary income maintained a similar level of deficit (EUR 0.1 billion) as in the same month of 2023.

Raziskava o dostopnosti finančnih virov © Banka Slovenije

Survey on access to financing

03/13/2024 / Press release

Access to financing was again one of the least important limiting factors faced by firms in 2023. Firms continued to be most curtailed by inflation, production and labour costs, and domestic demand. The firms in the survey on access to financing for 2023 report a net increase in demand for almost all types of external financing, but at the same time assess access to financing as having worsened for almost all types.

Sprememba operativnega okvira za izvajanje denarne politike ECB © ECB

ECB announces changes to the operational framework for implementing monetary policy

03/13/2024 / Press release

The Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) today concludes review of the operational framework for implementing monetary policy that started in December 2022.

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ECB INTEREST RATES

Date: 09/20/2023

Main refinancing operations: 4.50

FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES

Date: 03/18/2024

EUR/USD 1.0892
EUR/CHF 0.9630

INFLATION RATE – HICP (annual percentage changes)

Date: 02/29/2024

  • 9.3%was the average headline inflation in 2022, as measured by HICP.

  • €8.5 billionwas excess liquidity of the Slovenian banking system at the end of 2022.

  • 1.1%was NPE ratio in the banking system at the end of 2022.

  • €14.7 billion net total of cash issued into circulation by the end of 2022 by Banka Slovenije since the adoption of the euro.

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Do you know what the four key tasks of Banka Slovenije are?

At Banka Slovenije, we place great emphasis on financial literacy, as over the last few years there has been a strong need to offer the population a wide range of educational opportunities in the financial field. As part of our efforts in this area, we have also prepared a short animation presenting Banka Slovenije's key tasks.