Settlement systems

Systems mean the settlement of own and intermediated payment and securities transactions among the different financial and/or investment service providers, the mechanisms facilitating the implementation of transactions in cash or securities. The systems include all procedures and means that are necessary for implementing this task. Stability of the settlement systems is an important criterion for the financial stability and its efficiency is that for the competition among the financial service providers.

Vissza a tetejére

The primary objective of the MNB shall be to achieve and maintain price stability. (...) Without prejudice to its primary objective, the MNB shall support the maintenance of the stability of the system of financial intermediation, the enhancement of its resilience, its sustainable contribution to economic growth; furthermore, the MNB shall support the government’s economic policy and its policy related to environmental sustainability, using instruments at its disposal.