Category: Banking Industry
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Libya: A Dispute for Africa’s Largest Foreign-exchange Reserves
Amid the chaos of Libya’s long-sputtering civil war, the central bank in Tripoli, the capital, has stood strong. Its red-and-white striped façade, crowned with two turquoise cupolas, a throwback to the days of Italian colonisation, were unscathed. Sadiq al-Kabir, the bank’s governor appointed after Muammar Qaddafi was toppled in 2011, survived two civil wars and…
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Experian & Paylink Solutions Launch Debt Consolidation Tool
Experian and Paylink Solutions have partnered to expand credit access and improve financial inclusion through innovative debt repayment technology Credit reporting giant Experian has announced a partnership with Paylink Solutions, a leading provider of affordability software and payment services. The collaboration will integrate Paylink’s innovative ReFi™ product into the Experian Marketplace, potentially opening doors to credit for millions of…
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Central Bank officials flee Libya
The head of the Central Bank of Libya, Sadiq al-Kabir, and other senior officials left the country to save their lives and those of their families. The militias threaten and terrorize bank employees, and sometimes kidnap children and relatives to force them to go to work,” al-Kabeer said.
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BRICS Bank anticipates greater utilization of local currencies
BRICS Bank anticipates greater utilization of local currencies, NDB chief says The US dollar has the tendency to disrupt financial markets in developing countries president, the New Development Bank’s (NDB) president, Dilma Rousseff, said during the opening of the NDB Board of Governors’ plenary session. Thus, the NDB is placing a strong emphasis on promoting…
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Ethiopian Banks Under Pressure as Foreign Competition Looms
The liberalization of the exchange rate for the birr last month has shaken up the banking sector. The country’s 32 banks will now have to adapt to the arrival of new lenders and some may not survive. Foreign banks, long eager to enter the Ethiopian market, are now more motivated than ever. The recent exchange…
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Nigerian Fidelity bank hit with record fine by NDPC for data privacy violations
The Nigeria Data Protection Commission (NDPC) has fined Fidelity Bank 0.1% of its 2023 revenue, amounting to $358,580, for violating data laws during the account opening process, according to the agency’s report. This is the largest fine NDPC has imposed for data breaches, though Fidelity Bank is contesting the decision. The NDPC instructed Fidelity Bank…
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The UN mission in Libya, UNSMIL, has expressed concern “over reports of the mobilisation of forces in Tripoli
Since the Libyan Central Bank, based in Tripoli, is the only internationally recognized bank that benefits from oil exports, the parallel government in the east of the country depends on cooperation to export oil from the rich basins of the Gulf of Sirtre. Due to the current political tensions between Tripoli and Benghazi, in the…
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Libya’s powerful central bank governor sacked
One of Libya’s dueling authorities unilaterally fired the country’s powerful central bank governor in an abrupt move that is likely to inflame tensions in the divided North African country. The presidential council in the capital of Tripoli, which is allied with the government of Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah that controls western Libya, removed Gov.…
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Libya’s central bank suspends operations after kidnapping of official
Libya’s Tripoli-based central bank said on Sunday it would shut down all operations and not resume work until a senior bank official kidnapped earlier in the day was released. The central bank is the only internationally recognised depository for Libyan oil revenues, a vital economic income for a country torn for years between two rival…
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