After 1972, the existing banks were licensed by the Central Bank.\u00a0 They were obliged to meet a range of standards and requirements set out by the Central Banks.\u00a0 They have been revised and updated from time to time to reflect the banking environment at home and abroad<\/p>\n
In 1989, building societies and trustee savings banks were placed under the control of the Central Bank. The bank set prudential \u00a0standards with a view to minimising concentration of lending risk requiring it to hold certain liquid assets and be adequately capitalized and managed.<\/p>\n
The Central Bank carried out inspections twice yearly onsite to \u00a0review control systems and performance of management.<\/p>\n\n
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Central Bank Established The Central Bank of Ireland was established in 1943 (1942 Act) \u00a0following a Commission Report from 1938.\u00a0 The Central Bank took over the functions of the Currency Commission in 1942, although it did not act as a Central Bank at first.\u00a0 It was given powers to guard the purchasing power of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19682"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19682"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31115,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19682\/revisions\/31115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}