central bank

financial institution managing a country's monetary policy with a monopoly on increasing the monetary base; typically oversees commercial bank stability, prevents bank runs, and regulates against fraud, money laundering, and terrorism financing
Organization government_agency Q66344
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central bank

Summary

central bank is a government agency[1]. It ranks in the top 0.3% of government_agency entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (13,384 views/month, #12 of 3,958).[2]

Key Facts

  • central bank is in the country of US[3].
  • central bank's instance of is recorded as government agency[4].
  • central bank is a type of bank[5].
  • central bank is a type of governing body[6].
  • central bank is a type of monetary authority[7].
  • central bank is a type of public enterprise[8].
  • central bank's Commons category is recorded as Central banks[9].
  • central bank's said to be the same as is recorded as central banking[10].
  • 1898-04-17 marks the founding of central bank[11].
  • 1956-05-31 marks the founding of central bank[12].
  • 1879-01-01 marks the founding of central bank[13].
  • 2006-11-14 marks the founding of central bank[14].
  • central bank's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Central banks[15].
  • central bank's Commons gallery is recorded as Central bank[16].
  • central bank's topic has template is recorded as Template:Central banks[17].
  • central bank's topic has template is recorded as Template:Infobox central bank[18].
  • central bank's legal form is recorded as 2I4P[19].
  • central bank's legal form is recorded as HTV5[20].
  • central bank's legal form is recorded as VWY9[21].
  • central bank's legal form is recorded as 8888[22].
  • central bank's main Wikidata property is recorded as P1304[23].
  • central bank's main Wikidata property is recorded as P562[24].
  • central bank's properties for this type is recorded as P38[25].
  • central bank's properties for this type is recorded as P17[26].
  • central bank's has list is recorded as list of central banks[27].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

GLEIF Golden Copy — Level 1 entity data

  • Legal Entity Identifier (LEI): 549300XF8276TFB0V157[28]

  • Registered legal name: Central Bank[29]

  • Legal jurisdiction: US-FL[30]

  • GLEIF entity category: GENERAL[31]

  • Legal form (ISO 20275 ELF): 8888[32]

  • Other legal form: CORPORATION[33]

  • Entity status: ACTIVE[34]

  • LEI registration status: LAPSED[35]

  • Entity created: 2006-11-14[36]

  • LEI first registered: 2017-10-17[37]

  • LEI last updated: 2025-09-19[38]

  • LEI next renewal: 2019-10-11[39]

  • Managing LOU: 5493001KJTIIGC8Y1R12[40]

  • Registration authority: RA000603[41]

  • Authority entity ID: P06000143354[42]

  • Conformity flag: NON_CONFORMING[43]

Body

Founding

Recorded inception include 1898-04-17[11], 1956-05-31[12], 1879-01-01[13], and 2006-11-14[14].

Why It Matters

central bank ranks in the top 0.3% of government_agency entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (13,384 views/month, #12 of 3,958).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[44] It is known by 56 alternative names across languages and contexts.[45]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [28] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  2. [29] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  3. [30] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  4. [31] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  5. [32] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  6. [33] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  7. [34] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  8. [35] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  9. [36] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  10. [37] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  11. [38] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  12. [39] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  13. [40] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  14. [41] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  15. [42] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  16. [43] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [44] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [45] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 11w ago · Verdy p · 2026-07-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → government agency
    Subclass of → bank, governing body, monetary authority +1
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P279]]: [[Q327333]]"
  2. 11w ago · Bencemac · 2026-07-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikidata description → financial institution managing a country's monetary policy with a monopoly on in
    "/* wbsetqualifier-add:1| */ [[Property:P459]]: [[Q1266546]], [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/260983|batch #260983]]"
  3. 16w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0003009-centralni-banky
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: h0003009-centralni-banky, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259662|batch #259662]]"
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