Standing repo operations serve two purposes. First, the fixed interest rate set for them (currently the key rate plus one percentage point) forms the upper limit of the interest rate corridor, i.e. the corridor in which the rates of the overnight segment of the interbank market can fluctuate. Secondly, these operations allow credit institutions, which for some reason could not find funds in the money market, to receive liquidity from the Bank of Russia for a period of 1 day secured by securities.