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Part I Financial Markets, 3 UK Central Banking and Financial Stability

Guy Morton, Andrew Marsh

From: Financial Markets and Exchanges Law (2nd Edition)

Edited By: Michael Blair, George Walker, Stuart Willey

Content type:
Book content
Product:
Financial Law [FBL]
Published in print:
01 November 2012
ISBN:
9780199601653

From: Oxford Legal Research Library (http://olrl.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 22 September 2023

Subject(s):
Banks as a lender — Financial stability — Bank of England — UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) — UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) — International Monetary Fund (IMF) — Secondary market
3.01 The Bank of England, the UK’s central bank, was established in 1694 by a Charter granted by King William III and Queen Mary II under the authority of an Act of Parliament.1 The principal object of the Act was to raise money for the government and the Bank was created as a vehicle for that purpose. From its inception, therefore, the Bank was closely associated with the raising and management of the national debt, a function that it retained until the creation of the UK Debt Management Office (DMO) in 1998. 3.02 The Bank was not formed as what would now be...
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