În baza art.17 din Legea cu privire la BNM, nr.548-XIII din 21 iulie 1995, Banca Naţională a Moldovei stabileşte băncilor cerinţe de menţinere a rezervelor obligatorii. Rezervele obligatorii (RO) reprezintă nivelul minim al rezervelor pe care o bancă autorizată trebuie să le deţină la BNM. RO se utilizează în scopul schimbării cererii banilor de rezervă pe scurtă durată şi respectiv a ratei de dobîndă pe termen scurt.
http://www.bnm.md/md/obligatory_reserves

Minimum Reserve Service. Subsidised Loan Limit Maximum Monthly. Subsidy. 1 4 years 8 years $187159 Up to $200. 2 8 years
http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w...

Minimum Reserve Service. Maximum Loan Limit. Maximum Monthly Subsidy
http://www.defence.gov.au/dpe/pac/dhoas_amend.htm

It is very questionable whether it is desirable to establish a minimum reserve by law, though it does exert a restraining influence on a few reckless bankers who might otherwise injure the whole financial fabric
http://chestofbooks.com/finance/banking/Banking-Principles-A...

6. An amount of capital held back from investment in order to meet probable or possible demands.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/reserve

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The ECB requires credit institutions established in the euro area to hold deposits on accounts with their national central bank. These are called "minimum" or "required" reserves.
http://www.ecb.int/mopo/implement/mr/html/index.en.html

sau "required reserves"

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http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1C1GGGE_enCY355CY355&...

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12. 1998 was the last year before the start of the third stage of EMU and the introduction of the euro. The ECB took over from the EMI, which had already made significant progress in preparing the operational framework for the Eurosystem(5) surrounding the implementation of monetary policy. In September 1998, for example, the ECB published a report presenting the instruments of this monetary policy, which include a ***minimum reserve requirement***(6), open market transactions(7) and standing facilities(8).
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:...

The requirement for institutions to hold ***minimum reserves with their central banks*** In the minimum reserve framework of the Eurosystem, the reserve requirement of a credit institution is calculated by multiplying the reserve ratio fixed for each category of items in the reserve base by the amount of those items in the institution's balance sheet.
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:...