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Established
  
27 September 1922 [1]

Central bank of
  
Lithuania

Founded
  
27 September 1922

Chairman
  
Vitas Vasiliauskas

Headquarters
  
Vilnius

Bank of Lithuania httpsca33f332e2199349c49cdc74b5af55c9b2a1bd889

Succeeded by
  
European Central Bank (2015)

Website
  
(Lithuanian) (English) The Bank of Lithuania

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The Bank of Lithuania (Lithuanian: Lietuvos Bankas) is the central bank of the Republic of Lithuania. The Bank of Lithuania is a member of the European System of Central Banks. The chairman of the bank is Vitas Vasiliauskas. Until 2015, the Bank of Lithuania was responsible for issuing the former Lithuanian currency, the litas.

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Primary functions

According to the Bank's official website, the Bank of Lithuania performs these primary functions:

  • maintaining price stability.
  • formulating and implementing the monetary policy.
  • acting as an agent of the State Treasury.
  • Management and structure

    The Bank is governed by a board consisting of a chairperson, two deputy chairpersons and two members.

    According to The Bank of Lithuania official website, it is managed by Supervision Service; ten departments: Economics, Statistics, Market Operations, International Relations, Payment Systems, Cash, Accounting, Information Technology, General Services and Security; six autonomous divisions (Internal Audit, Legal, Organisation and Personnel, General and Public Relations, Risk Management), and Bank of Lithuania Branches in Kaunas and KlaipÄ—da.

    References

    Bank of Lithuania Wikipedia