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The Central Bank of Nigeria has revoked the operating licences of 766 Bureaux De Change and will no longer allow them participate in its twice-weekly sale of dollars.

CBN Revokes Licences Of 766 BDCs

Godwin Emefiele
The bank in a circular posted on its website on Friday announced the names of 2,442 BDCs that met the new recapitalisation guidelines.
The CBN had, in a bid to reposition the foreign exchange market, in June released new capitalisation guidelines for the BDCs in the country.
In the guidelines, the central bank had increased the capital base for the BDCs from N10m to N35m, and asked them to make a caution deposit of N35m, among other requirements.
The 766 BDCs failed to meet the July 31, 2014 recapitaisation deadline set by the CBN.
In a circular dated July 7, 2014, the Director, Financial Policy and Regulation, CBN, Mr. Kelvin Amugo, had said the BDCs that failed to meet the new guidelines by July 31 would cease to be recognised and funded by the central bank.
As a result of the new circular, 766 out of the total 3,208 BDCs registered by the CBN cease to be recognizing as such by the CBN.
Amugo also said that all the BDCs that met the requirement would be engaged as agents by licensed international money transfer operators for inbound and outbound money transfer business in Nigeria.
In addition to those already registered, the central bank has applications from 1,417 prospective bureaus de changes awaiting its approval.
This means that additional 1,417 prospective failed to meet the deadline.

The CBN officials had said that if the central bank had granted them the licences, the country would have 4,625 licensed BDCs operating in the country to which the central bank must sell $50,000 on a weekly basis.
This, they said, would rise the CBN’s funding of the BDCs to $12bn per annum. This, they noted, would provide an avenue for the depletion of the nation’s foreign reserves.
The BDC operators’ association have opposed the new policy and made moves under the new dispensation at the CBN to upturn the policy.
But they failed in their bid when the Governor of the CBN, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, reaffirmed the commitment of the apex bank to the implementation of the guidelines.
Emefiele said it would help to stem the depletion of the country’s foreign reserves from unproductive transactions.
However, the Acting National President, Association of Bureau de Change Operators of Nigeria, Alhaji Aminu Gwadabe, argued that dollar sales to the BDCs were not responsible for the depletion of the external reserves, saying the amount sold to the sub-sector was negligible.

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