It is the authority charged with safeguarding financial stability and supervising intermediaries. It manages payment settlement systems, monitors these systems and supervises the financial markets. It conducts economic, legal, and statistical research and provides services to the public.
It is perhaps difficult to appreciate the sheer variety and breadth of everything the Bank does, given the many essential tasks it carries out in the public interest. In compliance with transparency requirements and legal obligations, the Bank provides an account of its work in the Report on Operations and Activities which, as is now customary, is published today together with the Annual Report.