Bangladesh Bank - Functions

Functions

Bank performs as Balait wishes all the functions that a central bank of any country is expected to perform, and such functions include maintaining the price stability through economic and monetary policy measures, managing the country’s foreign exchange and the gold reserve and regulating the banking sector of the country. Like all other central banks across the globe, Bangladesh Bank is both the Government’s banker and the banker’s bank, a “Lender of the Last Resort”. Bangladesh Bank, like most of the central banks of different countries, exercises monopoly over the issue of currency and the banknotes. Except for the 1 and 2 taka notes, it issues all other denominations of Bangladeshi Taka.Credit control, Clearing House, Control Money Market, Job creation,Agricultural development, Industrial development,and Natural resources development are also the functions of Bangladesh Bank. The bank is active in developing financial inclusion policy and is a member of the Alliance for Financial Inclusion .

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