{"id":109719,"date":"2021-11-20T06:25:20","date_gmt":"2021-11-20T05:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=109719"},"modified":"2021-11-20T06:25:20","modified_gmt":"2021-11-20T05:25:20","slug":"naira-falls-by-2-8-to-n545-1-at-parallel-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/11\/20\/naira-falls-by-2-8-to-n545-1-at-parallel-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Naira falls by 2.8% to N545\/$1 at parallel market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The naira has depreciated against the dollar at the parallel section of the foreign exchange market.<\/p>\n<p>This was disclosed on Friday by the\u00a0<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Bureaux De Change (BDC) operators in Lagos.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>According to the BDC,<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0the naira exchanged for N545 per dollar at the street market.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">This represents N15 or 2.8 percent depreciation when compared to the N530 it traded last week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">A parallel market (street market) is characterised by non-compliant behaviour with an institutional set of rules.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">At the close of the market on Friday, figures from the FMDQ OTC Securities Exchange, a platform that oversees official foreign-exchange trading in Nigeria, also showed that the local currency fell at the official market by 0.2 percent to N414.40\/$1.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Central Bank of Nigeria <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/11\/17\/covid-19-cbn-disbursed-3trn-loans-to-nigerians-businesses-emefiele\/\">(CBN)<\/a> has said that the parallel market is not a true reflection of the naira.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The apex bank had, in July, stopped dollar sales to the<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0earlier authorised BDCs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">It said the BDCs had turned themselves into \u201cagents that facilitate graft and corrupt activities of people who seek illicit fund flow and money laundering in Nigeria\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">In August, deposit money banks were commissioned by the CBN to cater for legitimate forex demand by citizens.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">In compliance with the policy, the banks set up teller points for FX transactions in their branches to attend to customers with<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0legitimate demands.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The naira has depreciated against the dollar at the parallel section of the foreign exchange market. 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