The norm, in detail
Goodbye to the LEFI: liquidity control moves to the Treasury and the market
DNU 453/2025 + Joint Res. SF/SH 32/2025 + BCRA execution
in forceNATIONAL
Fiscal and monetary anchor
What changed and who it applies to
What changed
The LEFI (Fiscal Liquidity Bill) was discontinued as a monetary-policy instrument. DNU 453/2025 authorized swapping the LEFI stock maturing Jul 17, 2025 in the BCRA's portfolio for Capitalizable Treasury Bills in pesos for up to a face value of $28 trillion (exempt from art. 65 of Law 24.156) and expanded by a face value of $50 trillion the 2025 bill-issuance authorization. Joint Resolution SF/SH 32/2025 implemented the swap with a basket of 33% LECAP (Aug 15, 2025) + 33% LECAP (Sep 12, 2025) + 34% BONCAP (Oct 17, 2025). Result: the LEFI stock in the BCRA's portfolio was replaced with Treasury debt, shifting liquidity management toward capitalizable bills, reserve requirements and open-market operations. verif · Jul 7, 2025 ↗
In force
DNU 453/2025 is in force from its publication in the Official Gazette on Jul 7, 2025; Joint Res. 32/2025 set the swap operation on Jul 11, 2025 and settlement on Jul 14, 2025. The operational discontinuation of the LEFI by the BCRA (reported Jul 10, 2025) and the reserve-requirement changes (from August 2025) are BCRA execution with no primary source recorded. verif · Jul 14, 2025 ↗
Who it affects
BCRA, National Treasury and financial institutions (banks): the LEFI was the instrument through which banks placed remunerated excess liquidity with the BCRA. Replacing the stock with Treasury debt shifts the management of excess pesos to the Treasury (capitalizable bills) and to the reserve-requirements/open-market scheme, affecting the formation of short-term interest rates across the whole economy. verif · Jul 7, 2025 ↗
The norm
Two federal instruments confirmed in the BO plus BCRA implementation not opened at the primary source: (1) DNU 453/2025 (DNU-2025-453-APN-PTE), signed Jul 4, 2025, published in the BO on Jul 7, 2025 (notice 327921); (2) Resolución Conjunta SF/SH 32/2025 of the Ministerio de Economía, signed Jul 11, 2025, published in the BO on Jul 14, 2025 (notice 328288). (3) The operational wind-down of the LEFI by the BCRA (reported on Jul 10, 2025) and the change in reserve requirements from August 2025 are BCRA implementation: the specific Comunicación 'A' was NOT identified at the primary source, so it remains unconfirmed. verif · Jul 7, 2025 ↗
Our reading
The BCRA sheds a remunerated liability and returns liquidity regulation to the market and the Treasury: less endogenous printing to pay interest, more coherence with the fiscal and monetary anchor (R1/R6). It is one more step toward a peso that does not dilute itself. What to watch: in the transfer, the short-term rate was left more at the mercy of the market and the transition had episodes of rate volatility. thesis
Where it lands, province by province
Applies the same nationwide
We looked at this rule from each of the five provinces we track and found no effect that lands differently in any of them: it applies the same across the country.
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