The principal objective of the Bank of Lithuania is to maintain price stability. At the same time, modern central banking today is difficult to perceive without a sound and efficient functioning of the payment and securities settlement system and the entire domestic financial system.

While maintaining price stability, the Bank of Lithuania also supports an effective functioning of the credit institutions in a competitive but stable environment. This strengthens the resilience of not only individual credit institutions to domestic and external shocks but also of the whole financial system and ensures an effective distribution of limited financial resources.

The Bank of Lithuania conducts the supervision of credit institutions and oversight of payment systems, assesses potential or actual threats to effective and ongoing operations to credit institutions, publishes the Annual Financial Stability Review, compiles and analyses statistical and other market information, in cooperation with other public and credit institutions proposes measures to avoid or reduce threats to the stability of the financial system.