Also, to ease liquidity concerns, the Bank provided ample funds to the money market, totalling 82.4 trillion yen, in the week starting March 14, the first business day after the earthquake, thus preventing any turmoil in the market. Power outages at some of the Bank’s branch premises were dealt with by the use of stand-by in-house power generation systems.
To exchange damaged or soiled banknotes and coins for clean ones, the Bank increased the number of staff at branches in the disaster areas and opened a temporary cash exchange counter in Iwate Prefecture, where the Bank does not have a branch.