Bancos Centrais das Américas

The Bank’s most important objectives are to maintain the external stability of the Netherlands Antillean guilder (NAf.) and to promote the efficient functioning of the...

The Central Bank of Argentina, also known as the “BCRA”, was established on May 28th, 1935 to act as the country’s financial agent in all cases. The Bank is run by a...

The Central Bank of Aruba (the Bank) started its operations on January 1, 1986, when Aruba obtained its status as an autonomous country within the Kingdom of the...

The Central Bank of The Bahamas was established on 1st June 1974, and marked the beginning of a new phase in the monetary history of The Bahamas. Today, the Bank...

The Central Bank of Barbados (CBB) is not a commercial bank and therefore does not offer banking services to the public. Rather, we are responsible for promoting monetary...

The Central Bank of Belize was established on 1st January 1982 by the Central Bank of Belize Act No. 15 (Chapter 262 of the Laws of Belize Revised Edition 2000). Similar...

The Bermuda Monetary Authority is responsible for the licensing of banks, deposit companies and investment businesses, the issue and redemption of Bermuda notes and...

The Central Bank of Bolivia (Spanish: Banco Central de Bolivia) is responsible for monetary policy and the issuance of banknotes. The bank was established by Law 632,...

O Banco Central do Brasil foi criado pela Lei 4.595, de 31 de dezembro de 1964. É o principal executor das orientações do Conselho Monetário Nacional e responsável por...

The Bank of Cape Verde is Cape Verde's central bank. It is located in the national capital of Praia on Santiago in Cape Verde. The government established it in 1975 as a...

O Banco do Canadá (em francês: Banque du Canada) é o banco central canadense. Foi criado pela lei bancária de 1934 (Bank of Canada Act 1934) com o objetivo de “promover o...

The Central Bank of Chile was created by decree law No. 486, 21 August 1925, under the government of President Arturo Alessandri Palma. This initiative arose as one of...

The Bank of the Republic is the central bank of the Republic of Colombia. Its main functions are detailed by the Congress according to the Ley 31 de 1992. One of them is...

The Central Bank of Costa Rica is in charge of establishing banking policy. It is then up to the SUGEF (the General Supervisory Agency of Finance) to enforce compliance...

The creation of Banco Central de Cuba (BCC), as disposed by the Council of State by means of Decree-Law No. 172, of May 28, 1997, provided the country with an...

O Sistema de Reserva Federal é o sistema bancário central dos Estados Unidos. Foi criado em 1913 pela promulgação da lei bancária de 1913 (Federal Reserve Act 1913), em...

The Central Reserve Bank of El Salvador is the central bank of El Salvador, which controls the currency rate and regulates certain economic activities within El Salvador....

The Central Bank of Ecuador, founded as a private bank in 1927, was declared an organ of the state in 1948 by the Monetary Board. The Central Bank issues and stabilizes...

The Bank of Guyana was established by virtue of the Bank of Guyana Ordinance No. 23 of 1965. Actual operation commenced on October 16. 1965 – seven months before the...

The Bank of Guatemala was created in 1945, as an autonomous entity responsible for all of the functions that correspond to a central bank, and in order to establish the...

The Haiti national bank was founded after the independence of Haiti from France. The oldest reference to a bank in Haiti can be attributed to a short correspondence...

By tradition, the Central Bank of Honduras has been a leader and pioneer institution within the governmental sector in many aspects among its field of competition;...

The Cayman Islands Monetary Authority (CIMA) is the primary financial services regulator of the Cayman Islands. The CIMA manages the Cayman Islands currency, regulates...

The Bank of Jamaica is the central bank of Jamaica located in Kingston. It was established by the Bank of Jamaica Act 1960 and was opened on May 1st 1961. It is...

O Banco do México é o banco central mexicano. No âmbito da Constituição, é autônomo em suas operações e gestão. Sua principal função é fornecer moeda à economia nacional....

The Central Bank of Nicaragua, established in 1961, has the sole right of issue of the national currency, the córdoba. The financial system had been dominated by the...

The National Bank of Panama is one out two government owned banks in Panama. As of January 2009 it held deposits of about 6 billion dollars. The other government owned...

The Central Bank of Paraguay is Paraguay's highest monetary authority, and the country's governing body in finances and economics. Its headquarters are in Asunción. The...

The Central Reserve Bank of Peru is the Peruvian central bank. It mints and issues metal and paper nuevos soles currency. The Constitution states that the purpose of...

The Central Bank of the Dominican Republic was created on October 9th, 1947. It commenced operations on October 23rd of the same year, serving as a decentralized and...

The Central Bank of Suriname is Suriname's highest monetary authority and the country's governing body in monetary and economic affairs. It was established on 1st of...

The Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago was established by an Act of Parliament on December 12, 1964. Since that time the Central Bank has been instrumental in the...

The Central Bank of Uruguay (1967) issues currency (the Uruguayan peso), regulates foreign exchange, and oversees the country’s private banks.

The creation of the Banco Central de Venezuela took place against a backdrop of great political, social and economic changes in the world. Aside from the start of the...