Bank of Finland

The Bank of Finland is Finland's national central bank and a member of the Eurosystem, headquartered in Helsinki. It was established on March 1, 1812 as the Office of Exchange, Lending and Deposits of the Grand Duchy of Finland, taking its current name in 1840, and describes itself as the fourth-oldest surviving central bank in the world after Sweden's Riksbank, the Bank of England and the Bank of France. Wholly owned by the Republic of Finland and governed through the Finnish Parliament's Parliamentary Supervisory Council and its own Board, it was responsible for currency supply and foreign exchange reserves before many of its functions passed to the European Central Bank when Finland joined the Economic and Monetary Union in 1999.