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Swiss federal authorities

This type includes:

  • issuing and managing banknotes and digital currency
  • conducting monetary policy, including monitoring and control of the money supply
  • promoting financial stability
  • taking deposits that are used for clearance between monetary intermediaries
  • supervising banking or non-banking monetary operations, unless performed by some other entity
  • holding the country’s international reserves
  • acting as banker to the government

This type also includes:

  • activities of central banks, currency boards and central monetary agencies

This type excludes:

  • operation and supervision of financial markets other than by central banks and public authorities, see 661100
  • financial supervisory activities for insurance and pension funding (not by the central bank), see 662909
  • financial regulation relating to the conduct of business and consumer protection and other wider financial regulatory activities, see 841300
  • activities of international organisations (e.g. the World Bank), see 990002