Average Interest Rates on Crown Deposits for the Year 2008

Interest Rates for outstanding amounts and new business of deposits in the Slovak koruna^*/

(in % per annum)

Note:

*/ The interest rate statistics gathered on a harmonized basis based on Regulation (EC) No 63/2002 of the ECB, sectoral classification is based on ESA95.

1/ Total deposits are deposits without REPOs.

2/ New business in the case of deposits with an agreed maturity cover all new agreements between households or non-financial corporations and the bank.

3/ Deposits with agreed maturity are non-transferable deposits which cannot be converted into currency before an agreed fixed term or that can only be converted into currency before that agreed term provided that the holder is charged some kind of penalty.

4/ Deposits redeemable at notice are non-transferable deposits without any agreed maturity which cannot be converted into currency without a period of prior notice, before the term of which the conversion into cash is not possible or possible only with a penalty.

5/ Overnight deposits are convertible into currency and/or are transferable on demand by cheque, banker’s order or similar means, without significant delay, restriction or penalty.

Y – means Year, M – means Month