Euribor market interest rates tick up

FRANKFURT, June 21 (Reuters) - Key euro-priced bank-to-bank lending rates continued their recent steady rise on Monday, as the region's debt crisis continued to hit confidence and money markets prepare for a 442 billion euro payback deadline.

The three-month Euribor rate -- traditionally the main gauge of interbank euro lending and a mix of interest rate expectations and banks' appetite for lending -- rose to 0.733 percent from 0.732 percent the previous day, the highest level since late October.

Six-month rates inched up to 1.019 percent from 1.015 percent, having broken through the ECB's benchmark interest rate level of 1.0 percent two weeks ago for the first time since last November.

One-year rates increased to 1.289 percent from 1.285 percent, a new nine-month high, while shorter-term one-week rates rose to 0.367 percent from 0.366 percent.

The debt troubles hitting Greece and other financially strained euro-zone countries, have reignited fears about region's banks and forced the European Central Bank to reintroduce extra lending operations and abandon a long-held resistance to buying government bonds. [ID:nSGE65A02M]

Markets are also bracing themselves for July 1, when banks have to pay back 442 billion euros worth of one-year loans borrowed from the ECB last year, although they will have the option of switching to shorter-term loans.

Euribor rates are fixed daily by the Banking Federation of the European Union (FBE) shortly after 0900 GMT.

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* For a table of the previous day's fixings of EONIA swap rates, which show market expectations for future overnight lending rates, double click on

* For graphs of historic Euribor and EONIA swap rates, right click on the links in angle brackets below, and select 'Related Graph' 1 week 2 week 3 week 1 month 2 month 3 month 4 month 5 month 6 month 7 month 8 month 9 month 10 month 11 month 1 year (Reporting by Frankfurt newsroom)