Банк Гайаны

Банк Гайаны

Город — Джорджтаун

Сайт — www.bankofguyana.org.gy/bog

P.O. Box 1003 Lot 1 Church and Avenue of the Republic, Robbstown,

Georgetown

Guyana

communications@bankofguyana.org.gy

1(592) 226-3250-9

(592) 227-2965

 

 

Банк Гайаны

The Bank of Guyana building was constructed by the contracting firm Taylor Woodrow International Limited. The building was completed on October 11, 1965 and was officially opened on October 15, 1965. The architects were W. H. Watkins and Partners, in consultation with the Building Division of the Ministry of Works and Hydraulics.

The role of the Bank Of Guyana is to act as the Central Bank Of Guyana.
Its primary purpose is to formulate and implement monetary policy so as to achieve and maintain price stability. The other major purpose is to foster a sound, progressive and an effective financial system. In the discharge of its functions, the Bank strives to:

  • Promote a sustained and non-inflationary growth of the economy.
  • Maintain the integrity and value of the Guyana dollar.
  • Secure the credibility of the financial system, including payments arrangements, through supervision and oversight.

Functions
Having regard to its Mission, the functions of the Bank of Guyana are as follows:

  • To offer advice to the Government on economic management in order to achieve the desired course of economic events and minimise or avoid inconsistencies among various governmental policy measures.
  • To offer advice on the efficacy of alternative policy instruments — exchange rates, interest rates and money supply.
  • To monitor the functioning of the financial system and foster its development.
  • To manage the foreign exchange reserves of the nation within the context of national policy.
  • To operate such accounts of the Government as are assigned to the Bank.
  • To manage the internal and the external public debt.
  • To issue the country’s legal tender and to ensure the efficiency of the arrangements for payments and other forms of exchange.
  • To co-operate with other Government agencies in facilitating international trade and payments.

FUNCTIONS AS A PUBLIC SECTOR INSTITUTION

As an institution within the public sector, the objectives of the Bank are as follows:

  • To develop expertise in the management of financial institutions and the overall economy and to make such expertise available to other institutions through membership of Boards, secondment or permanent transfer arrangements.
  • To develop systems of data collection, processing and analysis and to share the facilities with the rest of the public sector whenever possible.
  • To develop any other skills relevant to the Bank’s overall functioning and to make such skills available to the rest of the public sector.
  • To operate with such efficiency as will earn the respect of the Government and the people, the banks it supervises and its international contacts.

Within its power, to accord respect to the people of Guyana and those with whom the Bank comes in contact, in order to avoid alienating the public against the public sector institutions.

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