Some believe that as payments are made and collected in new ways, certain laws and regulations need to be clarified. Others suggest that the change offers a unique opportunity to reconsider the relationships among legal and regulatory regimes that support the payments system.
In 1999 the mission was reformulated as the achievement and maintenance of financial stability. In February 2000, an inflation target set by the government was introduced as the anchor of monetary policy. This entrusted a single ultimate monetary policy objective to the Bank: price stability.