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An Expert Guide About MIBID and Other Important Factors

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An Expert Guide About MIBID and Other Important Factors

What Is the Mumbai Interbank Bid Rate (MIBID)?

A synthetic benchmark interest rate used by banks in the Indian interbank market is referred to as Mumbai Interbank bid rate (MIBID).

MIBID is the rate that a bank uses when it wants to borrow funds from another participating institution.

The Mumbai Interbank Bid Rate is used to set interest rates in the financial market.

In 1988 the  (NSEIL) launched MIBID along with the Mumbai Inter-Bank Offer Rate (MIBOR) and the rate is calculated daily as weighted averages of interest rates of a group of banks.

When customers, are offered loans by banks they are charged interest on them.

Likewise, when a short-time loan is offered by a bank to another bank or to any other financial institution, interest is charged on that loan.

This interest rate varies from bank to bank, depending on their policies. But, it is benchmarked to the MIBID value.

Understanding the Mumbai Interbank Bid Rate (MIBID)

Depending on the interest rate that participating banks pay to one another the Mumbai Interbank Bid Rate is calculated.

Initially, MIBID was launched for the overnight call money market. But later on popular demand, it got extended to term money for 14 days/1 month/3 month durations.

Each day the MIBID is calculated as a weighted average of interest rates on at least 10 cleared money market transactions of five billion rupees occurring between 9:00 and 10:00 a.m. on any given day.

Varying from the weighted average rate + 3* standard deviation and weighted average rate — 3* standard deviation, the rate range is calculated.

Trades taking place at rates outside the maximum and minimum values will be considered as outliers and will be excluded from the computation process.

The MIBID rate as a deposit rate is always lower than the interest rate charged to those banks that are wanting to borrow funds.

The rate of interest charged by a bank on a short-term loan to another bank is called the .

This provides the bank a profit from the spread of interest earned and paid.

As banks try to pay less interest on funds that they borrow from depositors the MIBID is comparatively lower than the .

The banks try to get more interest on the funds that they loan out, to profit from the spread.

For Indian overnight lending rates the MIBID and MIBOR together, constitute a bid-offer spread.

History of the Mumbai Interbank Bid Rate (MIBID)

On June 15, 1998, the MIBID and MIBOR rates were launched by the Committee for the Development of the Debt Market, as an overnight rate for the Indian banking sector.

Right from the time of their launch MIBID and MIBOR rates have been used as benchmark rates for the majority of money market deals made in India.

Initially, MIBID was established as the Indian overnight call money market.

It was later broadened to include term money for durations of two weeks, one month, and three months because of popular demand.

In addition to the existing overnight rate with the collaboration of the Fixed Income Money Market and Derivatives Association of India (), in June 2008 a three-day FIMMDA-NSEIL MIBID-MIBOR combined rate was introduced.

The Reserve Bank of India announced in July 2015, that the methodology for the FIMMDA-NSE-Overnight Mumbai Interbank Bid/Offer Rate (Overnight MIBID/MIBOR) benchmark in India would be revised with the introduction of the FBIL-Overnight MIBOR on July 22, 2015.

A new company, the Financial Benchmarks India will administer the FBIL-Overnight MIBOR which is based on actual traded rates.

Based on polled rates, the existing benchmark is set by the FIMMDA and the NSEIL.

Conclusion

The Mumbai Interbank Bid Rate is a benchmark interest rate that is calculated as a weighted average of rates provided for large bank deposits by other banks in India.

It is used as a reference rate to set other market interest rates and to other well-known interbank rates.

For short-term loans between Indian banks, MIBOR, MIBID is paired with a corresponding interbank offer rate.

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