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At its meeting held on Friday, February 27, the Board of Directors approved Banco de la República’s financial statements for fiscal year 2025. The Bank’s Auditor General and the external audit firm KPMG S.A.S. issued an unqualified opinion on these financial statements. Prior to their approval, the…

Banco de la República (the Central Bank of Colombia) manages the clearing and settlement of checks in Colombia through a retail-value payment system known as Compensación de Cheques (CEDEC-CCSD in Spanish, Clearing and Settlement System for Checks and other Physical Payment Instruments), through…

The Compensación Electrónica Nacional Interbancaria (CENIT in Spanish, Electronic Clearing System for checks and ther payment instruments) is an Automated Clearing House (ACH) managed by Banco de la República (the Central Bank of Colombia), which provides the following services:

The Depósito Central de Valores (DCV in Spanish, Central Securities Depository) of Banco de la República (the Central Bank of Colombia) is a system designed for asset servicing and the deposit and custody of securities in the form of electronic records (dematerialized). 

The Sistema Electrónico de Negociación (SEN in Spanish, Electronic Trading System), hereinafter SEN or THE SYSTEM, is the trading and registration system for securities transactions administered by Banco de la República (the Central Bank of Colombia), through which Agents may enter intospot or…

A loggerhead turtle, a highly migratory marine species, is the image in the obverse (Heads) of the new bimetallic COP$1000 coin, which will return to the hands of Colombian people when Banco de la República (the Central Bank of Colombia) puts it into circulation in the second half of 2012. The coin…

The Board of Directors is the country’s monetary, exchange and credit authority. As such, it complies with the duties and functions set forth in the Constitution, in Law 31 of 1992, and in the bylaws of the Bank (Decree 2520 of 1993).

Presented at the Seminar on Inflation Targeting organized by the Centre for Central Banking Studies of the Bank of England at Columbia University.

On 7 December 2016, Banco de la República started circulating the new $10 thousand-peso banknote, the sixth and last of the new family of banknotes. This banknote will circulate simultaneously with the current one. Red is its predominant color. The obverse features the image of anthropologist…

The scarlet macaw, the frailejón, and the spectacled bear are the three representative species of the Colombian biodiversity that will be present in the obverse (heads) of the new COP$200, COP$100, and COP$50 coins, which Banco de la República (the Central Bank of Colombia) will start circulating…

On 31 March 2016, Banco de la República started circulating the new $100 thousand peso banknote, the first of a new family of banknotes. The obverse features the image of President Carlos Lleras Restrepo (complying with article 10 of Act 1167 of 2007) together with the barranquero bird and the…

The Journal Essays on Economic Policy (EEP) from Banco de la República summons the academic community and all interested to the seminar about Changes on Monetary Policy and Central Banking over the last two decades, which will take place on October 23 and 24 of 2014 at the Events Center of the…

 

 

 

  The Monetary Board was created, consisting of the following members: i) the Minister of Finance and Public Credit, presiding, ii) the Minister of Development, iii) the Minister of Agriculture, iv) the Head of the National Department of Economic Planning, and v) the Governor of the Banco de…

  Nationalisation of the Banco de la República. The Government, having withdrawn as a shareholder in the Banco de la República in 1951, once again assumed this role during this period. The Government acquired all the shares in the Bank leaving one share for each of the shareholding banks.…

On 29 November 2016, Banco de la República started circulating the new $2 thousand-peso banknote, the fifth of the new family of banknotes, which will circulate simultaneously with the current one. Its predominant color is blue. The obverse features the image of artist Débora Arango, along with the…

As per Decree 2520 of 1993, it is the responsibility of the Administrative Council to consider and adopt general policies on administration and operation of the Bank, and to determine the authority for contracting, ordering expenditure and investment, and authorizing the transfer or disposal of…

On 30 June 2016, Banco de la República launched the new 20 thousand peso banknote, the second of the new family of banknotes, which will circulate simultaneously with the current one. The obverse features the image of President Alfonso Lopez Michelsen (complying with article 8 of Act 1599 of 2012…

The scarlet macaw, the frailejón, and the spectacled bear are the three representative species of the Colombian biodiversity that will be present in the obverse (heads) of the new COP$200, COP$100, and COP$50 coins, which Banco de la República (the Central Bank of Colombia) will start circulating…

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Presentación realizada durante el Seminario Macro Anif 

Presentado por: Daniel Osgood (Lead Scientist, Financial Instruments Sector Team, Research Scientist International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) The Earth Institute at Columbia University)

Presentado por: Xavier Freixas (Profesor, Departamento de Economía, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)