CBN Mandates Digital Tracking of Every Retail Dollar and Launches Real-Time BDC FX Tracker
Nigeria's Central Bank has introduced a digital tracking requirement for all retail foreign currency transactions and launched a real-time Bureau de Change FX tracker, ordering the 24-hour resale of unused dollars. The sweeping surveillance framework represents a significant tightening of Nigeria's foreign exchange oversight regime.
Nigeria's FX Tracker: the 24-hour rule is the mechanism that changes everything
The real-time tracker gets the headlines, but the provision that actually matters is smaller and sharper: any dollars a Bureau de Change buys from Nigeria's official market and doesn't sell within 24 hours must be returned.
That single rule closes the gap that has let parallel FX markets thrive for years — hoarding cheap official-rate dollars to resell later at a premium. No stockpile, no arbitrage.
Whether it holds depends entirely on enforcement. The CBN has written the right mechanism. Now watch whether the fines and licence revocations actually land when violations surface.
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- Nigeria’s central bank wants every retail dollar traced with digital tracker · techcabal.com · T1
- CBN Launches Real-Time FX Tracker to Monitor Bureau De Change Dollar Purchases · innovation-village.com · T2
- CBN launches BDC FX tracker, orders 24-hour resale of unused dollars · nairametrics.com · T2