Central Bank 

• implementation regulation and supervision of the banking industry
• controls the nation's entire money supply
• the Government's banker and the bankers' bank ("Lender of Last Resort")
• manages the country's foreign exchange and gold reserves and the Government's stock register
• setting the official interest rate - used to manage both inflation and the country's exchange rate and
• ensuring that this rate takes effect via a variety of policy mechanisms.

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