Central Banks Finance Government

Central Banks Finance Government

Central Banks

Central banks, also known as reserve banks or monetary authorities, define and issue legal tender (money). Their precise role varies from country, but most also manage the foreign-exchange reserves. Some also issue government debt, and some supervise parts of the financial system. Currency boards issue money the value of which is pegged to a different currency, usually the US dollar.

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- Summary of the workings of the domestic debt market.
- List of commercial banks and application forms for T-Bill purchases.
- Quarterly economic bulletin, basic economic indicators, information about the rural self-reliance fund and a history of Nepalese capital markets.
- Includes a brief history, pictures of commemorative coins and information about the regulation of financial services.
- Workings of its currency board, banking policy and supervision, debt market developments, HIBOR fixings and press releases.
- List of institutions, links, collectors notes and coins; about Bermuda, and how to form a Bermudan entity.
- History of policy rates and T-bill issuance, spot FX rates, the bank's internal stucture, and addresses of regional offices.
- With pictures of items in the collection of The Numismatic Museum of the Centrale Bank van Suriname.
- Annual report and monetary statistics.
- Monetary operations, periodic and special reports, and facts about the BCRP.
- Profiles of chief officers of the bank, the bank's mission, bill and bond information, and annual reports and monetary policy statements.
- List of financial institutions, rules and regulations, money and banking statistics, annual report and quarterly bulletin.
- Working papers, regulatory framework, currency collectables, and a webcam giving the best view from any central bank.
- Financial information including the history of the composition of the currency basket and its relationship to the forint, economic statistics, and legislative information.
- About the bank, its monetary policy, payment systems, laws, a history of Latvian money and balance sheets of credit institutions.
- Explanation of the objectives and implementation of monetary policy, the rules of exchange controls, and the operation of the government securities market.
- About the bank, Barbados links, and monetary policy.
- Official reserves, report on inflation target, annual reports, the 2001 Act of the Central Bank of Iceland, and historical data for REIBID and REIBOR.
- About Armenia and the Central Bank, list of financial institutions, and money-supply statistics.
- Objectives, functions, calendar of economic releases, and an list of answers to FAQ about the peso's depreciation.
- Speeches, statistics, rules and regulations for and supervision of financial institutions.
- List of banks, policy tools, regulations and legislation, economic and financial statistics, and information on coins and banknotes.
- Decisions of the Monetary Policy Committee, guide to financial investment in Thailand, debt issuance announcements, payment systems, banknotes, and details of assistance to priority economic sectors.
- Directory of financial institutions, statutes and regulations, the "data room" of monetary information, and a licensing guide.
- Economic and financial data, exchange and payments systems, the history of the Lebanese pound, and information on the banking and financial sectors.
- Monetary policy statements, economic statistics, description of the payment system, information on banknotes, and other publications and research.
- Annual Report, monetary and macroeconomic information, banking information, legislation and the Museum of Coins and Medals.
- History of the bank and contact information.
- Comments on monetary policy, on bank supervision, and on the BCC's moves towards a gross real-time settlement system.
- History and press releases.
- Brief explanation of monetary policy, banknotes and coins, and daily FX quotations.
- List of banks, money-supply statistics, and legal framework.
- FX in and outflows, supervision and surveillance annual reports, and monthly audited accounts.
- Banking, financial-sector and economic statistics, legal tender, legal and regulatory framework, press releases and contact information.
- History, monetary policy framework, international business incentives, notes and coins, information on government securities.
- With a short list of functions and tasks, and a telephone directory.
- Banking directives, dealing prices of Treasury Bills and government securities, money-market reports and press releases.
- With annual reports and bulletins of the Central Bank of Nicaragua, statistics, and economic indicators. Current information in Spanish, most documents available in English.
- Includes a history of Nigerian monetary policy and of Nigeria's foreign exchange market, press releases, and statistics on government finances and on the economy.
- History, goals, structure, regulatory orders for banking and insurance, economic statistics and a list of commemorative coins.
- Accounts, external reserves, and information about the Faroe Islands economy.
- Exchange controls, national data summary, press notices and a summary of Malaysian financial system.
- Purpose, exchange-rate policy, and monetary statistics.
- Monetary policy meetings and minutes, speeches, research papers, statistical releases, quarterly bulletin, and sources of changes in account balances at the BoJ.
- Monetary policy mechanism, payment system, and exchange-control rules.
- Monthly bulletin, exchange rates, base rate and penalty rate, acts on banknotes, acts on interest rates, current and former FX regimes, and a list of all ATMs in Slovenia.
- Press releases, regulations including exchange controls, and monetary, economic and banking indicators.
- History, economic statistics, inflation and exchange rate reports, banking operations and regulations, and gold museum.
- Investment services, requirements for creating a bank or insurance company, history of the currency (including the monetary divorce from Jamaica), and economic statistics.
- History, structure, governing law, and financial and statistical data delivery system.
- Legal staus, foreign exchange laws and monetary policy.
- Includes copies of the Quarterly Economic Bulletin.
- Origin and history and policy objectives.
- Law, financial statements, spheres of activity, and pictures of the banknotes.
- Structure of the financial system, monthly statistical bulletin, and mission statement.
- Includes some of the main banking regulations and a list of banks.
- Economic commentary and outlook, monetary statistics, and daily inter-bank interest rates.
- Structure, governing legislation, economic statistics, and a list of banks in Poland.
- Structure, law and descriptions of banks.
- Press notices, economic information, explanation of inflation target and market operations, careers and economic research.
- History, legislation, and currency statistics.
- Staff papers, annual reports, occasional reports on the state of the economy, and information about the BoU's various credit programmes.
- Organisation, and brief comments on the state of the economy and the tools it uses.
- Inflation reports, regulations, economic and statistical information, payment system, and history.
- Current FX rates, history of Egyptian money, and the latest annual report and quarterly economic review.
- Museum, economic and financial statistics, press releases, banking licences and regulations.
- Debt buyback information, list of registered banks and supervision regulations, payment system, bond bill auction details and application forms, and the Bank of Tanzania Training Institute.
- Monetary and exchange-rate policies, numismatic information and quarterly inflation reports.
- Rural finance and credit scheme, central bank acts and exchange control orders.
- Economic releases, FX system, chemical composition of coins, and a brief history of the Korean financial system.
- Function and structure, branches, pictures of currency, balance sheet and FX rates.
- With a summary of the BPK's responsibilities and of the rules that regulate financial institutions in Kosovo. In English, Albanian and Serbian.
- Economic indicators, spot FX, annual reports and contact details.
- Currency museum, stock quotations and press releases.
- Also known as the "Central Bank of Bangladesh". About the financial system, the convertibility of Taka, and economic and statistical data about the economy.
- Legislative structure, history, directories of banks and other associations, notes and coins, and statistical reports.
- General remarks on price stability and relevance of LIBOR to monetary policy, rules on monetary-policy repo tenders, schedule of forthcoming speeches, data and statistics.
- History, legislation and decrees, and economic statistics.
- With information on foreign exchange, government securities, and the structure of the financial system.
- Legal function, monetary policy, banking supervision, payment systems, and economic and financial statistics.
- Press releases on monetary policy and related matters, and a detailed section on the Government Petroleum Fund, managed by a separate unit within Norges Bank called Norges Bank Investment Management.
- About the bank's mission and organizational structure, and some economic information.
- Also known as Baanka Somaliland; site has a list of departments, branches and directors.
- Legislation, speeches, a list of financial institutions, and information on Pula-denominated government bonds.
- Statistical digest, quarterly monetary policy report, and balance sheet.
- With information on the law, bank supervision, government bonds, currency and numismatics.
- Daily SLIBOR and exchange rates, monthly bulletin and prices at open market operations.
- About the bank and contact information, monthly and quarterly bulletins, and information about commemorative coins.
- Bank supervision acts and regulations, money-market operations, statement of policy on forward FX trading, press releases, monetary-policy statements, and about the South African Reserve Bank College.
- With information on the Andorran financial system in English, Spanish, French and Catalan.
- Includes information on the daily dollar auctions, the governor, and the rebuilding of Iraq's financial architecture.
- Mission statement, and list of financial institutions.
- Explanation of monetary policy, the discount rate and CIBOR, notes and coins, bank, mortgage and capital-market statistics, and information on government debt.
- Monthly bulletins, banking law, monetary statistics, history and banknotes.
- History, financial and credit statistics, and MAIBOR rates.
- Economic information and statistics and contact information.
- Describes the RMA's legal status, roles, and has the text of relevant laws.
- Monetary policy and FX regime, acution details, the payment system, and restrictions on the export of currency.
- Annual and quarterly reports, monthly economic bulletins, Currency collectibles, and tenders of Solomon Islands Government Treasury Bills.
- Background, monetary policy guidelines, and list of banks (both open and closed).
- Site includes minutes of the meetings of the Supervisory Council.
- Currency museum, history of credit ratings, and steps towards full convertibility of the currency.
- Minutes of the Monetary Policy Committee, mission statement and research papers.
- Mission, annual reports and monetary surveys, and speeches.
- Summarizes the foreign exchange regulations and gives basic facts about the central bank.
- Brief summary of monetary policy, foreign exchange regime and regulatory environment.
- Monetary policy, statistics, the banking system and New Zealand's unusual method of supervision, payment systems, RBNZ research papers and about the new series of polymer banknotes.
- With information about the currency, the bank, and governing legislation.
- The monetary authority in the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya. Includes some recent laws, a brief history, and more content in Arabic.
- History of financial Institutions in Ethiopia; about the Ethiopian Institute of Banking and Insurance (EIBI); and results of weekly auctions of foreign exchange.
- History, exchange rate system and peg weights, economic statistics, quarterly review and annual report.
- Daily FX fixings, monetary policy framework, Estonian banking system, Estonian banknotes and coins, and papers on the EU accession process.
- Publications, balance sheets of credit institutions, banknotes, and an explanation of the change in the currency peg from USD to EUR at the start of February 2002.
- Economic and financial data for Sweden, FX reserves, and information on government debt.
- The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street. Site has publications including the semi-annual Practical Issues Arising From the Euro, minutes of monthly monetary-policy meetings, weekly Bank Return, and other press releases.
- Balance sheet, payment system, exchange control rules, and announcements of auctions of government debt.
- Formerly the National Bank of Yugoslavia, site has history and organization, regulations, monetary policy, the banking system, and how to form a bank.
- Information about monetary policy and operations, issues of government securities, financial and economic statistics, and the RBI museum.
- Economic and financial data, BoZ publications and press releases.
- List of banks, statistical bulletins, and information about the intended future issuance of a Palestinian monetary unit.
- IMF agreements, operation of monetary policy, Act and Charter.
- History, balance sheet, press notices, and data release calendar.
- Includes the balance sheet of the Autoridade Bancária e de Pagamentos de Timor-Leste.
- FX statistics, financial institutions, government bond and treasury bill auctions (excel format), monetary policy announcements, and information about new banknotes and coins.
- Lists of financial institutions, rules applicable to them, quarterly bulletins and annual reports, and Dutch-language job vacancies.
- Semi-annual inflation reports, government bond auctions, and announcements relating to banking supervision.
- Law and organization structure.

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