Central Bank of Venezuela

Central Bank of Venezuela
Banco Central de Venezuela
HeadquartersAvenida Urdaneta, Caracas 1010, Venezuela[1]
Established8 September 1939; 85 years ago (1939-09-08)[2]
Ownership100% state ownership[3]
PresidentCalixto Ortega Sánchez
Central bank ofVenezuela
CurrencyVenezuelan bolívar
VED (ISO 4217)
Reserves$9.8 billion
Websitewww.bcv.org.ve
Central Bank of Venezuela Building

The Central Bank of Venezuela (Spanish: Banco Central de Venezuela, BCV) is the central bank of Venezuela. It is responsible for issuing and maintaining the value of the Venezuelan bolívar and is the governing agent of the Venezuelan Clearing House System (including an automated clearing house).[4]

  1. ^ "Google Maps". Google Maps. Retrieved 12 October 2017.
  2. ^ "Company Overview of Banco Central de Venezuela BCV". Bloomberg News. 27 January 2018. Archived from the original on 27 January 2018. Retrieved 27 January 2018. Banco Central de Venezuela was formed in 1939 and is headquartered in Caracas, Venezuela.
  3. ^ Weidner, Jan (2017). "The Organisation and Structure of Central Banks" (PDF). Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek.
  4. ^ Reyes-Torres, Eddy (22 August 1996). "Automated Clearing House". Central Bank of Venezuela. Archived from the original on 15 June 2002. Retrieved 27 January 2018. Similarly, in those Clearing Houses in which automated mechanisms of clearing or exchange of checks cannot be established, the use of diskettes may be dispensed with or substituted by some other mean.