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CBL approves applications for 64 Foreign Exchange Bureaux

bySami Zaptia
February 3, 2025
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CBL receives results from meetings with international banks

‎The Central Bank of Libya (CBL) announced today that it has approved 64 applications for the opening of Foreign Exchange Bureaux.‎

These will be the first such official FX bureaux since before the Qaddafi era in 1969.

‎The CBL also announced that it is extending, until the end of February 2025, the period for accepting documents for companies that have obtained the initial approval and faced difficulties in completing their procedures. ‎

‎It also announced that new applications to obtain initial approval for the establishment of FX Bureaux will open from 1 March until 30 June.

‎It is noteworthy that the CBL began receiving applications for FX bureaux since 3 November 2024 from those that had previously obtained initial approvals.‎

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‎CBL aims to control the FX market
The move by the CBL to allow officially regulated FX Bureaux comes as part of its effort to regulate the sale of foreign currency exclusively through legal and licensed bodies. This, the CBL hopes, would enable it to supervise and control these operations is in accordance with the laws and regulations governing the FX business.‎

The FX black/parallel market has been dominant
Currently a very active and effective black/parallel FX market operates across Libya. The black-market Libyan dinar exchange rate is always worse than the official rate set by the CBL. The authorities have often accused this market of artificially keeping the exchange rate of the Libyan dinar against major international currencies low – to the detriment of the Libyan economy and Libyan public.

Because the official and better Libyan dinar exchange rate set by the CBL is only accessible through a bank account, it makes it easier to obtain foreign currency, but at a higher rate, in the black-market.

‎Even the Grand Mufti wades in on LD FX rate
It must be noted that the black-market FX rate of the Libyan dinar has become the barometer of the success, or lack of, of the successive interim Libyan governments since the end of the Qaddafi regime in 2011.

On Saturday and Sunday, the Grand Mufti, the head of Dar Il Ifta, Libya’s religious council, waded in on the poor exchange rate of the Libyan dinar. He lamented the economic suffering of Libyans and taunted politicians and administrators for not resigning as a result of their failures.

 

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Tags: black marketCBL Central Bank of LibyaFX foreign currency exchange

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