The Banco de la República was established as the Central Bank of Colombia on the 25th of July 1923 by means of Law 25. The Bank was organised as an anonymous society with a starting capital of 10 million in gold, of which the Government provided 50% and foreign and national commercial banks as…
History
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- Basic page |After several attempts, in June of 1880, the Government created the Banco Nacional to act as its banker and to promote public credit.
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The 1991 Constitution drawn up by the Constituent National Assembly introduced various reforms to the previously existing central banking system in Colombia.
The principal reforms were aimed at the replacement of the Monetary Board by the current Board of…
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A central bank is the institution that issues and administrates legal currency and exercises the function of banker of banks. Furthermore, it controls the country’s monetary system (currency), credit system (interest rates) and foreign exchange system (foreign exchange…
- Basic page |In March of 1923, President Pedro Nel Ospina commissioned a group of experts, headed by Prof. Edwin Walter Kemmerer. This commission later became known as the Kemmerer Commission.
