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The Moroccan financial sector continues to show resilience against the negative impacts generated by the Covid-19 pandemic, said the “Coordination & Systemic Risk Monitoring Committee” following its meeting held Tuesday in Rabat at the headquarters of Bank Al-Maghrib. After the three-year review of the 2019-2021 period, the Committee examined and approved the new financial stability […]
Moroccan banks have shown resilience to the impact of the Covid-19 crisis maintaining enough provisions to face the surge of the cost of risk due to a rise in impaired loans, analysts and the central bank say. The IMF has urged the Central Bank to keep ensuring that the Banks had enough provisions to deal […]
Morocco expects to add 650 million dollars to its foreign exchange reserves as part of $1.2 billion that will be offered to the country under the IMF’s Special Drawing Rights. The sum is to be unlocked by the IMF this August 23 after a historic approval by the IMF Board of Governors to allocate Special […]
Morocco’s Central Bank (Bank Al-Maghrib) and its Hungarian peer Magyar Nemzeti Bank (MNB) have agreed, under an agreement, to foster their cooperation in banking digitalization and innovation in financial services. The agreement, which was signed on Monday, also deals with risk management related to digitalization as well as cybersecurity and digital transformation. Speaking on this […]
The scale of the informal sector in the Moroccan economy amounts to 30% of GDP said a new study conducted by the Central Bank. The informal economy leaves workers in vulnerability without pension or health insurance and undermines the economy due to tax and anti-competitive practices. In the MENA region the average part of the […]
Morocco will launch two international bonds in 2020 and 2021 to lift its foreign exchange reserves and help the economy offset the fall in foreign currency in flow due to the coronavirus impact, governor of Morocco’s central bank Abdellatif Jouahri said He said Morocco should tap into the bond market as long as conditions are […]
Morocco’s Central Bank, known as Bank Al Maghrib, asked banks not to pay 2019 dividends to shareholders in order to boost their capacity to dealing with the coronavirus repercussions. This recommendation comes after a series of measures including boosting three-fold bank’s refinancing capacity and measures to make loans more accessible for households and companies, the […]
Bank Al-Maghrib, Morocco’s central bank, has become member of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the oldest international financial institution, which helps central banks in their pursuit of monetary and financial stability through international cooperation. The decision was made lately by the BIS Board of Directors, which agreed to expand its membership by including the […]
Morocco’s central bank, known as Bank Al-Maghrib, received ISO 37001 certification in recognition for its Anti-Corruption Management System. The bank has received this certification on its 60th anniversary following the audit conducted by Euro-Compliance in October 2019, Bank Al-Maghrib said in a press release. This certification will further strengthen Bank Al-Maghrib’s actions, in terms of […]
Morocco’s Central Bank, Bank Al-Maghrib, and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development organized on Wednesday in Rabat a workshop on London Inter-bank Offered Rate (LIBOR) reform and the new money market benchmark in the North African country. Participants in the workshop discussed the implications of changes in the benchmark indexes used on the international […]