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| Headquarters | Port-au-Prince,Haiti |
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| Established | 17 August 1979 |
| Ownership | 100%state ownership[1] |
| Governor | Ronald Gabriel |
| Central bank of | Haiti |
| Currency | Haitian gourde HTG (ISO 4217) |
| Reserves | 1 820 million USD[1] |
| Preceded by | National Bank of the Republic of Haiti |
| Website | brh.ht |
TheBank of the Republic of Haiti (French:Banque de la République d'Haïti, abbreviatedBRH) is thecentral bank ofHaiti. It was formed in 1979 from theNational Bank of the Republic of Haiti (French:Banque Nationale de la République d'Haïti), which had served as the country's bank of issue since 1910, itself succeeding theNational Bank of Haiti.
The bank is active in promotingfinancial inclusion policy and is a member institution of theAlliance for Financial Inclusion. It recently announced aMaya Declaration Commitment to continue with the modernization of the payment system, and submit legislation to regulate and supervise micro finance institutions to relevant authorities in 2013.[2]
The central bank inPort-au-Prince was stormed during theHaitian riots of 2024. The attack was driven back by the bank's security guards leaving 3 people killed.[3]
The oldest reference to a bank in Haiti can be attributed to a short correspondence exchanged during September 1825 between a foreign tradesman, Nicholas Kane, the Secretary of State Balthazar Inginac about a proposal made by George Clark in the name of a German group, Hermann Hendrick and Co., to establish a bank in Haiti. However, the proposal was never accepted, and Hermann Hendrick and Co. was never established.
A Haitian law of 1880 allowed for a currency issuance concession to be granted to a privileged bank, and theNational Bank of Haiti was subsequently established in Paris in early 1881 by the French bankCrédit Industriel et Commercial. In October 1910, the issuance concession was transferred to a new bank, the National Bank of the Republic of Haiti (BNRH) formed by a consortium of French, German and American interests. TheNational City Bank of New York took over the BNRH following theUnited States occupation of Haiti,[4] and gained full ownership in 1919. In 1935, the Haitian government acquired the BNRH from National City Bank.[5] In 1979, BNRH was split into two financial institutions: theBanque nationale de crédit [fr] (BNC), a commercial bank, and the Bank of the Republic of Haiti.
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