Financial Markets Department
The Department has the following mandates:
Implementation of CBN-mandated and CBN financial market operations
Promotion of the Nigerian financial markets to ensure effective monetary policy transmission
Monetary Policy
The Department has the following mandate:
Development and implementation of monetary policy
Research
The Department has the following mandates:
Development and provision of information services, analyses and policy papers on various areas of the economy including the financial, external, fiscal and real sectors.
Macroeconomic modeling and forecasting
Statistics
The Department has the following mandates:
Provision of access to accurate, reliable, usable and timely data and statistics on a wide range of areas, in cooperation with the National Bureau of Statistics and other institutions
Trade & Exchange
The Department has the following mandates
Development and articulation of trade and exchange rate policies working with other arms of government
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Facts : 3/1/1970
ORGANISATION AND GROWTH:In March, 1970, the Board of Directors employed the services of W.H. Rozell (Junior), a consultant, to, among other things, review the existing structure and size of the Bank Departments.
In the same year, Rozell proposed a new organisational structure for the CBN.