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Nigeria: Central Bank prohibits banks to accept foreign currency deposits

Announcement

05 Aug 2015

In August 2015, the government of Nigeria announced a rule change for commercial cross-border financial flows.

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Number of interventions

1

1 certainly harmful

0 likely harmful

0 liberalising

List of interventions

1 in force

Implementation date

05 Aug 2015

Revocation date:

No revocation date

Controls on commercial transactions and investment instruments In force

On 5 August 2015, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) prohibited commercial banks to accept deposits of foreign currency cash. The policy was published in a circular by the CBN's Director of the Trade a...

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