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CBN Boosts Forex Market With $195m

Farouk Mohammed
By Farouk Mohammed
Published: August 22, 2017
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The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Monday boosted the foreign exchange market by offering a total of $195 to three market segments.

The bank auctioned $100m in the wholesale segment and also intervened in the Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and invisible segments, with the sum of $50 million and $45million respectively.

The acting director, Corporate Communications Department, Isaac Okorafor, noted that during this season when there are pressures on the market from those seeking forex for school fees and vacations.

The CBN has kept faith with its resolve to ensure that there is sustained liquidity in the market and ensure that genuine requests for forex are met, as well as improve liquidity and flexibility in the market.

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This comes on the heels of last week’s intervention in which the retail secondary market intervention sales (SMIS) received the largest allocation of $264,192,252.95 and the authorized dealers in the wholesale window had the sum of $100,000,000.

It will be recalled also that last week, the CBN, in a bid to improve foreign exchange availability in the Nigerian forex market and ameliorate challenges encountered by critical stakeholders, said payment for port charges to the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) and other agencies by oil marketing companies would henceforth be accommodated by the Bank using Form ‘A’.

It is hoped that the move by the CBN would go a long way in speeding up operations at the ports, thereby enhancing the ease of doing business in the country.

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