Bank of Zambia CB Circular No. 09/2022 Amendments to Daily Foreign Exchange, Interbank Money Market and Weekly Returns

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Bank of Zambia
OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY GOVERNOR - OPERATIONS

BOZ/EXEC/DGO/fmks/bp

June 21, 2022

CB Circular No. : 09/2022

To : All Heads of Commercial Banks

AMENDMENTS TO THE DAILY FOREIGN EXCHANGE TRANSACTIONS, DAILY INTERBANK MONEY MARKET ACTIVITIES AND WEEKLY SELECTED ASSETS AND LIABILITIES RETURNS

We wish to advise that the Bank of Zambia has made the following amendments to the daily foreign exchange transactions, daily interbank money market activities and weekly selected assets and liabilities returns:

1. Added a field for commercial banks to input the Taxpayer Identification Number (TPIN) of their client/counterparty in the daily foreign exchange transactions return (Schedules 1A, 1B, 1C, 1E and 1F), daily interbank money market activities return and commercial banks’ weekly return of selected assets and liabilities (Schedules 27A1, 27A2, 27A3, 27A4, 27A5 and 27B1); and

2. Added a field for commercial banks to input the ‘forward amount sold’ in Schedule 1C of the daily foreign exchange transactions return.

These amendments are aimed at enhancing the quality of statistics submitted to the Bank of Zambia. Soft copies of the revised returns will be emailed to each bank by Financial Markets department on Wednesday, June 22, 2022.

Submission of information using the amended returns takes effect on July 1, 2022.

Should you require further clarification, please do not hesitate to contact the office of the Director – Financial Markets.

[Signature]
Francis Chipimo (PhD)
DEPUTY GOVERNOR – OPERATIONS

cc Director – Financial Markets
Director – Bank Supervision

Bank Square, Cairo Road, P.O. Box 30080, Lusaka, Zambia Tel:+260-211-399303, 399300, E-mail: dgo@boz.zm. Web: http://www.boz.zm