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CBN lifts cash deposit restriction on domiciliary accounts, allows $10k withdrawals daily

June 19, 2023 • 4 min read

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) issued further guidance to Deposit Money Banks (DMBs) regarding operational changes to the foreign exchange market.

The policy changes aim to promote transparency, liquidity, and price discovery in the FX market to improve supply, discourage speculation, enhance customer confidence, and ensure overall stability.

The guidance includes allowing all visible and invisible transactions to be eligible for the Investors’ and Exporters’ window, granting unrestricted access to funds in ordinary domiciliary accounts, and permitting cash deposits not exceeding $10,000 per day or its equivalent via telegraphic transfer.

CBN issued a press statement on June 18, 2023, providing further guidance to Deposit Money Banks (DMBs) on the operational changes to the foreign exchange market announced on June 14, 2023.

The statement followed an extraordinary Bankers’ Committee meeting held to discuss the implementation and implications of the policy changes for the banking public.

According to the apex bank, the policy changes aim to promote transparency, liquidity, and price discovery in the FX market in order to improve FX supply, discourage speculation, enhance customer confidence and ensure overall stability in the FX market.

The bank highlighted some of the key points of the guidance as follows:

All visible and invisible transactions (medicals, school fees, BTA/PTA, airline, and other remittances) are eligible for the Investors’ and Exporters’ (I & E) window.

DMBs shall ensure expeditious processing of all eligible invisible transactions on behalf of their customers using the applicable rate at the I & E window.

Ordinary domiciliary account holders shall have unfettered and unrestricted access to funds in their accounts.

Domiciliary account holders are permitted to utilize cash deposits not exceeding USD$ 10,000 per day or its equivalent via telegraphic transfer.

DMBs shall provide returns to the CBN including the purpose for such transactions.

Cash deposits into domiciliary accounts will not be restricted, subject to DMBs conducting proper KYC, due diligence, and adhering to the spirit and letter of extant AML/FT laws and other relevant rules and regulations.

The CBN will prioritize orderly settlement of any committed FX forward transactions as they fall due in order to further boost market confidence.

The bank will normalize its CRR maintenance processes and ensure equity in its implementation across the banking industry.

The CBN assured the banking public that it remained committed to ensuring a stable and efficient FX market that meets the needs of all legitimate users.

What this means is that before now, there was a restriction on how much cash Nigerians can withdraw from their domiciliary accounts.

The restriction was also clouded with a lot of confusion as no one was sure how much cash he or she could withdraw.

At some point, the withdrawal of previously deposited cash was restricted to $10k per week or even monthly, depending on the subsisting central bank policy.

However, this has now changed as you can now withdraw or transfer to the maximum of $10k per day out of your domiciliary accounts.

It’s important to add that “inflow” (aka wired transfers) into a deposit account has no limit.The CBN also explained that Nigerians could deposit an unlimited amount of cash into their domiciliary accounts.

The new guidelines also mean Nigerians can now make forex transfers from one domiciliary account to another, even if it is in another bank.

This was previously not possible as transfers were only permitted within the same bank Optics.

This new directive will be welcomed by Nigerians who have struggled to access their cash deposits into domiciliary accounts following the restrictions placed by the central bank.

Before now, accessing cash deposits into domiciliary accounts was very limited as the Central Bank of Nigeria under Emefiele feared the dollarization of the economy.

With this new development, Nigerians with domiciliary accounts can use their debit cards abroad without fear of restrictions.

The development is also likely going to improve liquidity in the forex market as this allows more people to deposit their forex into banks.

Source: Nairametrics