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Hong Kong’s Paul Chan defends city’s currency peg to US dollar in Davos
23 Jan 2025 05:08 GMT
… to defend the city’s currency peg to the US dollar in …
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Currency peg questioned as cross-border payments become cumbersome
07 Jan 2025 19:53 GMT
Ester Mbathera
The process of doing cross-border payments across the Common Monetary Area (CMA) of South Africa, Namibia, Lesotho, and Eswatini has been described as cumbersome.
The new cross-border payments came into effect in September last year, and all …
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Reserves increase to N$63 billion
06 Feb 2025 16:05 GMT
… remained adequate to sustain the currency peg between the Namibia dollar and …
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Morocco plans to relax currency peg to Euro, US dollar in 2026
26 Oct 2024 18:46 GMT
Morocco plans to relax its exchange rate regime in 2026, resuming a gradual reform process that was interrupted by the pandemic, revealed Bank Al Mghrib’s governor Abdellatif Jouahri, in a statement to Bloomberg News.
During the annual meetings of the …
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Morocco Aims to Loosen Currency Peg to Euro-Dollar in 2026
26 Oct 2024 00:58 GMT
(Bloomberg) — Morocco aims to loosen the kingdom’s exchange rate regime in 2026, returning to a gradual reform process that was halted during the pandemic, the central bank governor said in an interview.
The step will consist of gradually moving the dirham …
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$2.63bn external reserves to ‘contract’ during 2025
05 Feb 2025 03:23 GMT
… secure The Bahamas’ one:one currency peg with the US dollar, and …
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Economy may shrink due to currency peg
24 Apr 2024 15:08 GMT
The Namibian economy may shrink, because the Namibia dollar is fixed to the rand.
If South Africa’s currency weakens, it can hurt Namibia’s economy too.
This is according Africa Upstream director Justin Cochrane.
He said due to power supply issues in South …
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IMF Leader to Travel to Ethiopia Amidst Economic Turmoil
30 Jan 2025 16:28 GMT
… July 2024.
The previous fixed currency peg had become untenable, leading to …
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IMF boss to visit Ethiopia amid reforms
30 Jan 2025 12:44 GMT
… since last July.
Enforcing the currency peg had become unsustainable, draining the …
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Malaysia expects ringgit to rise this year, rules out currency peg
29 Feb 2024 04:08 GMT
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 29 (Reuters) - Malaysia's finance
ministry on Thursday dismissed adjusting monetary policy or
pegging the ringgit to support the weakened currency, saying it
expects the ringgit's value to appreciate this year.
The ringgit has …