The way ahead There are several challenges we face at the Central Bank as we move into the new millennium. These are: •  Policy objective – maintaining price stability to assist economic activity. •  Financial inclusion – how to get the un-banked portion of our population into the formal financial system.
•  Financial Awareness and literacy – to educate the populace on financial matters and awareness against fast-money scams. •  Financial crime – improving ways of dealing with perpetrators of money schemes, financial fraud and theft, proceeds of crime, etc. •  Statistics – we continue to struggle to get reliable and timely data on other nonbanking and financial sectors.