Therefore, it is crucial that the Bank, while aiming to achieve price stability, also secure financial system stability so as to ensure that financial institutions can continue to fully perform their financial intermediation function.
As the global financial crisis revealed, the considerable impact on the real economy of financial system instability makes it increasingly important that the Bank conduct monetary policy in a manner that focuses not only on achieving price stability, but  11  also on giving due consideration to financial system stability, on the premise that monetary policy influences broad areas of financial activity.