Functions
According to the Constitution of Ukraine, the main function of the National Bank is to ensure the stability of Ukraine's monetary unit. To carry this out the National Bank fosters the stability of the banking system and, within its competence, price stability.
The National Bank also carries out the following functions:
- to determine and pursue the monetary policy in accordance with the General Principles of the Monetary Policy developed by the Council of the National Bank of Ukraine;
- to issue the national currency of Ukraine on a monopoly basis and to organize its circulation;
- to establish the rules of conducting banking transactions, accounting and reporting, protection of the information, funds and property for the banks and other financial and credit institutions;
- to organize and to provide the methodological support to the system of the monetary, crediting and banking statistical information and the statistics of the balance of payments;
- to determine the areas of the development of modern electronic banking technologies, to establish, co-ordinate and control the creation of electronic means of payment, payment system, banking automation and the banking information protection facilities;
- to exercise the banking regulation and supervision;
- to keep a Register of banks, their branch and representative offices, currency exchanges and financial and credit institutions, to license banking business and transactions, if provided for by the laws;.
- to compile, analyze and forecast the balance of payments;
- to represent Ukraine's interests in central banks of other states, international banks and other crediting institutions, where the cooperation takes place at the level of central banks;
- to exercise the currency regulation with the competence to be defined by a special law, to determine the procedure of effecting payments in the foreign currency, to organise and exercise the currency control over the commercial banks and other credit institutions which are in possession of a National Bank's license for the transactions with currency values;
- to ensure the accumulation and custody of the gold and currency reserves and the conduction of transactions with them and the banking metals;
- to analyze the status of the monetary, crediting, financial, pricing and currency relations;
- to organize the collection and transportation of bank notes, coins and other values;
- to implement the national policy of the protection of state secrets within the system of the National Bank;
- to take part in the training of personnel for Ukraine's banking system;
- to exercise other functions in the monetary and crediting sphere within its competence defined by the law.
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