What is the Dutch bank?

"De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB)" is the central bank of the Netherlands and also functions as a supervisor of the financial sector. Established in 1848, DNB is currently wholly owned by the Dutch State and responsible for monitoring financial stability in the Netherlands. Its main tasks include guaranteeing low inflation, payment traffic, and the supervision of the soundness and integrity of financial institutions.

Since the credit crisis, supervision by DNB has been significantly tightened. In addition to DNB, the Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM) is the other financial supervisor in the Netherlands, with the AFM responsible for conduct supervision and DNB for prudential supervision.

With the advent of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) in 1999, the European Central Bank (ECB) took over the policy tasks of national central banks, including DNB. DNB now implements the ECB's policy, but the president of DNB still has a say in the ECB's decision-making.