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The Bank Council oversees and controls the conduct of business by the Swiss National Bank and consists of 11 members. Six members, including the President and Vice President, are appointed by the Federal Council, and five by the Shareholders' Meeting. The Bank Council sets up four committees from its
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The National Bank contributes to the stability of the financial system by acting as an arbiter over monetary policy. Within the context of this task, it analyses sources of risk to the financial system, oversees systemically important payment and securities settlement systems and helps to promote an
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The basic governing principles of the Nationalbank are contained within Article 99 of the Federal Constitution, which deals with matters of monetary policy. There are three numbered factors concerning principles explicitly mentioning the Nationalbank, of four altogether shown within the Article. The
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The Swiss National Bank's management and executive body is the governing board. The governing board is responsible in particular for monetary policy, asset management strategy, contributing to the stability of the financial system and international monetary cooperation. The Governing Board consists
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The Swiss National Bank pursues a monetary policy serving the interests of the country as a whole. It must ensure price stability, while taking due account of economic developments. Monetary policy affects production and prices with a considerable time lag. Consequently, it is based on inflation
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The National Bank publishes within its own site a list of research done as work in progress by staff members, which begin at 2004 (2 papers), to 2005 (2), 2006 (11), 2007 (17), 2008 (19), 2009 (16), 2010 (19), 2011 (14), 2012 (16), 2013 (11), 2014 (13), and to 1 August 2015 there is shown nine
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The SNB announced on 6 September 2011 to set a minimum exchange rate of CHF 1.20 per euro and that it would "enforce this minimum rate with the utmost determination and is prepared to buy foreign currency in unlimited quantities" in order to take measures to stem the development of a possible
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The bank formed as a result of the need for a reduction in the number of commercial banks issuing banknotes, which numbered 53 sometime after 1826. In the 1874 revision of the Federal Constitution it was given the task to oversee laws concerning the issuing of banknotes. In 1891, the Federal
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in 1998 which concluded that the SNB received US$ 440 million in gold from Nazi sources, of which US$ 316 million is estimated to have been looted. The gold from Nazi governorship sources was in the form of lingots containing gold looted from central banks of Europe and gold from
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The Swiss National Bank acts as banker to the Swiss Confederation. It processes payments on behalf of the Confederation, issues money market debt register claims and bonds, handles the safekeeping of securities and carries out money market and foreign exchange transactions.
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On 9 January 2023 the SNB reported a loss of 132 billion CHF in its annual results for 2022. As many cantons expected dividend payments from the SNB, some cantons had to revise their budgets or even tap their financial reserves. For example, a planned tax decrease in the
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established by the machination of the Nazi regime, which the SNB took without knowing these facts at the time, nor inquiring to any great degree in the process of its transfer into the possession of the SNB, according to Robert Vogler, a former archivist of the SNB.
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The SNB's monetary policy strategy consists of three elements: a definition of price stability (the SNB equates price stability with a rise in the national consumer price index of less than 2% per year), a medium-term conditional
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The general meeting of shareholders is held once a year, usually in April. Owing to the SNB's public mandate, the powers of the shareholders' meeting are not as extensive as in joint-stock companies under private law.
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According to its guidelines, it "avoids shares in companies which produce internationally banned weapons, seriously violate fundamental human rights or systematically cause severe environmental damage".
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papers, a list of eight economic studies which relate to the tasks of the bank, listed from 2005, in addition to a bi-annually published update of research, listed from 2012 to the present.
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in 1997 notes that the bank "must have known that some portion of the gold it was receiving from the Reichsbank was looted from occupied countries". This was confirmed by the Swiss
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The National Bank is entrusted with the note-issuing privilege. It supplies the economy with banknotes. It is also charged by the Confederation with the task of coin distribution.
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The Swiss National Bank was founded under the law of 6 October 1905 ('the National Bank Act'), which entered into force on 16 January 1906. Business was started on 20 June 1907.
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The National Bank compiles statistical data on banks and financial markets, the balance of payments, the international investment position and the Swiss financial accounts.
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Following legislation agreed last year, the Swiss National Bank has achieved formal independence ... The National Bank law, which entered into force on 1st May 2004 ...
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The SNB announced on 15 January 2015 the euro currency arrangement would end as the euro crisis had passed and the Europeans would be making financial policy changes.
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recession. The bank stated the 1.20 exchange rate was defendable as the bank could potentially proceed to mint enough banknotes to control the rate sufficiently.
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devalued the Swiss Franc during 1936, and as a result there was made available to the National Bank an amount of money, which the bank subsequently stored in a
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office as saying that the gold vaults take up an area of roughly half the Federal Square and have a depth of dozens of meters, down to the level of the
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Together with the federal authorities, the National Bank participates in international monetary cooperation and provides technical assistance.
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In the field of cashless payment transactions, the National Bank provides services for payments between banks. These are settled in the
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sought to shore up their finances by taking a loan of CHF 50 billion from SNB after the bank's share price dropped nearly 25
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All in all, the Reichsbank shipped gold valued at 1,922 million francs, or 444 million dollars to Switzerland during the war.
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From the latter years of the 1990s until sometime during 2005, the National Bank transferred from its possession (when the
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acting under the administration and supervision of the Confederation. It had eight branches and twenty sub-branches within
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river. The SNB says that the gold reserves are stored in different safe places in Switzerland (70% -mostly under the
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Institutions in Perspective: Festschrift in Honor of Rudolf Richter on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday
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own ranks: an Audit Committee, a Risk Committee, a Remuneration Committee and an Appointment Committee.
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had to be postponed. Likewise, the federal government had budgeted a 666 million CHF income from SNB.
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Constitution was revised again to entrust the Confederation with sole rights to issue banknotes.
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forecast, and, at operational level, a target range for a reference interest rate, which is the
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to pursue a reliable monetary policy for the benefit of the Swiss economy and the Swiss people.
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Mixed ownership. Around 78% owned by Swiss public entities, the rest are publicly traded in
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Schweizerische Nationalbank (Swiss National Bank), 5 Franken (1914). The portrait depicts
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SNB and the Swiss government engineered a bailout plan for UBS in October 2008 during the
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Revill, John; Illien, Noele; O'Donnell, John; Hirt, Oliver; Sims, Tom (19 March 2023).
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and academics criticize the fact that these investments do not take into account the
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SNB is therefore obliged by constitutional statute law to act in accordance with the
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interests of Switzerland. Accordingly, the prime function of the Nationalbank is:
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An Economic History of Nineteenth-Century Europe: Diversity and Industrialization
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There is controversy over the role of the Swiss National Bank in the transfer of
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As of 31 December 2021 78,17% of voting shares are held by public shareholders (
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Central Bank Cooperation at the Bank for International Settlements, 1930–1973
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during World War II. The SNB was the largest gold distribution centre in
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Conquest and Redemption: A History of Jewish Assets from the Holocaust
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photographer was allowed to take at the SNB premises in Bern in 2001.
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A list of the Bank Council members is published on the SNB website.
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was at its historic low) half of its gold reserves, following the
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The Swiss National Bank invests its assets, particularly in the
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Study Center Gerzensee - Foundation of the Swiss National Bank
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The History of Information Security: A Comprehensive Handbook
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under special regulations and has two head offices, one in
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International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes
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in 2008. It published a photograph of the bullion that a
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Thomasson, Emma; Bosley, Catherine (6 September 2011).
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Jourdan, Susana; Mirenowicz, Jacques (24 April 2018).
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de Leeuw, Karl Maria Michael; Bergstra, Jan (2007).
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In 1981 the bank participated in research involving
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Share of the Swiss National Bank, issued 6 June 1907
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