The Central Bank of Liberia has issued a statement dismissing reports that it is planning to retrench 400 of its staff, to comply with an International Monetary Fund request to ... Read more »
In it's latest step towards restoring the domestic currency, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has announced that new $2 Zimbabwe dollar coins will go into circulation on November 11 ... Read more »
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe says only 50 companies operating in Zimbabwe are holding half of the total balances held across the country's banking sector, posing a high risk of ... Read more »
In Zimbabwe, trading in any currency which is not the Zimbabwe dollar now attracts a fixed $6 000 fine and failure to pay the fine will result in the person involved being jailed. ... Read more »
The central bank has announced that small scale gold miners can secure guaranteed Bank of Tanzania loans of up to over U.S.$217,579, through registered commercial banks in the ... Read more »
Sudanese victims of war crimes have filed a criminal complaint against French bank BNP Parisbas for alleged complicity in human rights abuses committed by Omar al-Bashir's regime. Read more »
The Labour Court has interdicted a planned strike by workers in the banking sector. Reasons for granting the interdict would be made clear in due course, Judge Hilary ... Read more »
As many as 50,000 workers will protest retrenchments in the banking sector in a nationwide strike that will see ATM and card transactions, as well as tax-related payments, ... Read more »
The House of Representatives has asked the Central Bank of Nigeria to immediately suspend the new charges placed on Nigerians under its new cashless policy. The bank had announced ... Read more »
Mozambique has been ranked as the country with the highest risk of money laundering and terrorist finance in the world, according to a report issued by the Basel Institute of ... Read more »
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