To facilitate corporate financing, the Bank has expanded the range of corporate financing instruments eligible as collateral, and has conducted special funds-supplying operations to facilitate corporate financing through which, taking corporate debt as collateral, it provides unlimited funds at a low interest rate. The Bank has also implemented measures exceptional for a central bank, such as outright purchases of CP and corporate bonds.
Today, the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is expanding public-private partnerships beyond all previous limitations and boundaries. The relationship between publicprivate partnerships and ICT can be described as symbiotic. The deployment of ICT has the power to improve the services that matter most to people’s lives: education, transportation, public safety, healthcare and social services.