Bank of Finland
| Headquarters | Helsinki |
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| Established | 1 March 1812 |
| Ownership | 100% state ownership |
| Governor | Olli Rehn |
| Central bank of | Finland |
| Reserves | 6 230 million USD |
| Succeeded by | European Central Bank (1999)1 |
| Website | suomenpankki.fi/en |
| 1 The Bank of Finland still exists but many functions have been taken over by the ECB. | |
The Bank of Finland (Finnish: Suomen Pankki, Swedish: Finlands Bank) is the national central bank for Finland within the Eurosystem. It was the Finnish central bank from 1865 to 1998, issuing the markka. It views itself as the fourth oldest surviving central bank in the world, after Sweden's Riksbank, the Bank of England, and the Bank of France, having been originally created in 1811-1812 as the Office of Exchange, Lending, and Deposits of the Grand Duchy of Finland (Finnish: Waihetus-, Laina- ja Depositioni-Contori Suomen Suuren-ruhtinaanmaassa) before taking its current name in 1840. Unlike many other longstanding central banks, it has always been government-owned.