Established | October 18, 1999 |
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Ownership | 100% state ownership[1] |
Governor | J. Aloysius Tarlue |
Central bank of | Liberia |
Currency | Liberian dollar LRD (ISO 4217) |
Reserves | 260 million USD[1] |
Website | www |
The Central Bank of Liberia is Liberia's central bank. Its current executive governor is J. Aloysius Tarlue. The offices of the bank are located in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia.
The bank is a member of the Alliance for Financial Inclusion.[2]
From 1974 to 2000, Liberia's central bank was the National Bank of Liberia. The Central Bank of Liberia, known as "CBL", was founded on October 18, 1999, by an act of the Liberian legislature, and began operations in the year 2000, at which time the National Bank of Liberia, or "NBL", was dissolved.[3]