Pursuant to the authorisation granted by the Central Bank Act, the basic tasks of the Magyar Nemzeti Bank include the collection of statistical information required for carrying out its tasks and fulfilling the statistical data reporting obligations for the ECB, the operation of an information system and the publication of statistical data regarding the functioning of the system of credit institutions and the financial position of the country.
This part of the website contains press releases presenting monetary, balance of payments and related international investment position, securities, financial accounts, financial stability, payments, payment system, macroprudential and financial intermediary system statistics compiled by the MNB as well as the methodological description of preparing these statistics. The detailed data of these statistics and other important information describing the financial situation of the country are available under the heading ‘Statistical Time Series’.