Committee On Public Enterprises (COPE) presented its report on the controversial Central Bank bond issue on 28th October 2016. In Central Bank’s 30 year Bond Debacle: What is the “Loss”? Verite Insights ( July 2015) identifies three errors in the published calculation of the monetary loss, and recalculates it at 0.9 billion rupees. It also highlights two other issues: conflict of interest, and confidence in institutions, which add to the negative consequences of the Central Bank decision.