Additional sterilization instruments include activity in the repo market, which provides for a corridor of benchmark short-term interest rates and the stock of treasury bonds in hands of the central bank as a result of the recall of quasi-monies carried out by the national government after the crisis.
This policy could not have been pursued without the strong balance sheet the central bank is able to show. In fact, these absorption instruments were utilized while preserving a positive balance sheet, which currently shows a profit of over 2 billion pesos.