One of our targets as a central bank is to achieve a certain deepening of our financial market. Together with our colleagues in the capital market, we are working towards developing the bond market, alongside our own attempts to develop a secondary market of Government paper.
The good news is that the largest institutions – the systemic credit institutions – are still posting high earnings. The systemic credit institutions achieved a return on equity of 8.4 per cent p.a. in the first six months of this year.