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| Oct 8, 2026 | Southern Africa: Zimbabwe Turns to India's Payments Giant to Cut Transfer Costs and Speed Up Digital Transactions | Zimbabwe is negotiating with India's international payments operator to reduce transaction costs and accelerate transfers, potentially bringing Indian technology into the infrastructure connecting its banks and digital-finance business... |
| Sep 5, 2025 | Zimbabwean ChatCash enters the ‘conversational commerce’ chat | In Harare’s informal markets, business happens in social media chatboxes. A grocery vendor takes orders over WhatsApp, a carpenter closes deals on Facebook Messenger, and payments are made either in cash or via mobile wallets such as EcoCas... |
| May 16, 2024 | India, Zimbabwe likely to ink pact for cooperation in fast payments system | |
| May 3, 2024 | Why Zimbabwe’s new ZiG banknotes have QR codes | The QR codes are clearly visible on the front of the new ZiG banknotes (left)
Zimbabwe recently introduced a new currency, the ZiG, backed by physical gold and US dollar reserves. The government hopes the ZiG will finally provide a stable r... |
| Apr 30, 2024 | Zimbabwe launches new currency ZiG in attempt to resolve money crisis | |
| Apr 9, 2024 | Zimbabwe just introduced a new gold-backed currency in an attempt to fight inflation and wean off the US dollar | Economy Zimbabwe just introduced a new gold-backed currency in an attempt to fight inflation and wean off the US dollar
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| Apr 9, 2024 | Zimbabwe’s new ZiG currency stronger than the rand! | Zimbabwe’s new currency, the ZiG, strengthened a day after its debut and is currently trading stronger than the rand against the US dollar. Image: Wikimedia Commons
Zimbabwe’s new currency, the ZiG, strengthened a day after its debut, the c... |
| Apr 5, 2024 | Zimbabwe replaces battered dollar with new gold-backed currency ZiG | Zimbabwe’s central bank launched a “structured currency” backed by gold as it seeks to tackle inflation and stabilise the country’s economy. Picture: File/Fotor.
Zimbabwe’s central bank launched a new “structured currency” backed by gold on... |
| Apr 25, 2023 | Zimbabwe’s digital currency plan needs R1.8-billion of gold | Zimbabwe needs US$100-million (R1.8-billion) of gold to kick-start its proposed bullion-backed digital currency, as the Southern African nation makes another attempt to stabilise its floundering dollar.
The central bank will rely on gold re... |
| Jul 27, 2022 | High interest rates aren’t the answer: inflation is spiking in Zimbabwe (again) | High interest rates aren’t the answer: inflation is spiking in Zimbabwe (again): Image: Adobe stock
The central bank of Zimbabwe has raised its benchmark rate from 80% to a fresh record of 200%. This increase comes as Russia’s invasion of U... |
| Jul 6, 2022 | Inflation is so bad in Zimbabwe that the country is now issuing gold coins to its citizens | Sign up for the Fortune Features email list so you don’t miss our biggest features, exclusive interviews, and investigations.
As a global inflationary wave continues to send costs soaring for everything from fuel to groceries, some governme... |
| May 26, 2022 | FlexID gets Algorand funding to offer self-sovereign IDs to Africa’s unbanked | Much of the world’s attention around blockchain is on the highs and lows of cryptocurrency values. Startups like FlexID remind us that distributed ledger technology has the potential to play other roles, including offering trusted records o... |
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Is Bitcoin Legal? | As the market capitalization of the cryptocurrency market continues to climb, regulators around the world are stepping up the debate on oversight into the use and trading of digital assets.
To date, very few countries have completely outlaw... |
| Jan 24, 2022 | Press Statement - Business review meeting between the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe and captains of industry and commerce on measures to promote price stability within the economy | K
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| Dec 30, 2021 | Foreign Exchange Allotments under the Foreign Exchange Auction System and Foreign Exchange Payments for the period January 2021 to December 2021 | K
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| Dec 3, 2021 | Self-assessment Report on the ZETSS/RTGS System's Observance of the Bank for International Settlement Principles for Financial Market Infrastructures | FINANCIAL MARKETS
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| Nov 14, 2021 | Reserve Money Update as at 5 November 2021 | UPDATE ON RESERVE MONEY
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Reserve money technically increased by ZW$3.91 billion to ZW$28.27 billion during the week ending 5th November 2021, compared to the previous week's position of ZW$24.36 bil... |
| Oct 15, 2021 | Foreign Currency Allotments for the Period June 2020 to September 2021 | K
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| Sep 2, 2021 | Issue of ZW$1.550 billion 2-year Government of Zimbabwe Treasury Bond 2023 (No. 1/2021) - Reopened | K
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| Aug 11, 2021 | Issue of ZW$1.550 billion 2-year Government of Zimbabwe Treasury Bond 2023 (No. 1/2021) | K
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The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) hereby invites investors, including but not limited to pension and provident... |
| Jul 3, 2020 | Money Reimagined: Bitcoin and Ethereum Are a DeFi Double Act | Tensions between the Bitcoin and Ethereum tribes have been stirred by a trend outsiders might see as a sign of harmony.
Throughout June, the amount of tokenized bitcoin on Ethereum, the bulk of it in WBTC, a special ERC-20 token known as “w... |
| Apr 7, 2020 | Lockdown highlights Zimbabwe’s desperate dependence on foreign remittances | The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ), the country’s central bank, will allow money transfer agencies to operate during the coronavirus lockdown. The move became necessary after households complained of the crushing effect of being cut-off fro... |
| Oct 3, 2019 | Zim central bank restores mobile money cash payouts with new cap | The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) yesterday has restored mobile money cash-out payouts, with a new 100 Zimbabwe dollar cap (currently about US$6).
The moves comes as Zimbabwean telecoms company Econet on Tuesday (1 October) filed an urgent... |
| Oct 3, 2019 | Zim central bank restores mobile money cash payouts with new cap | The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) yesterday has restored mobile money cash-out payouts, with a new 100 Zimbabwe dollar cap (currently about US$6).
The moves comes as Zimbabwean telecoms company Econet on Tuesday (1 October) filed an urgen... |
| May 16, 2018 | You won’t be able to draw dollars – crypto exchange Golix tells Zim customers | Five days since the Zimbabwe central bank issued a circular prohibiting banks from processing transactions linked to cryptocurrencies, crypto exchange Golix today informed Zimbabwean customers that they would not be able to use the exchange... |
| May 16, 2018 | You won’t be able to draw dollars – crypto exchange Golix tells Zim customers | Five days since the Zimbabwe central bank issued a circular prohibiting banks from processing transactions linked to cryptocurrencies, crypto exchange Golix today informed Zimbabwean customers that they would not be able to use the exchange... |
| Apr 13, 2018 | Zim crypto exchange Golix launches and activates country’s first Bitcoin ATM | Zimbabwean cryptocurrencies exchange Golix has launched and activated the country’s first ever Bitcoin ATM which will allow customers to buy and sell Bitcoin.
Golix announced the launch last week in a blog post on its website. The Bitcoin ... |
| Apr 13, 2018 | Zim crypto exchange Golix launches and activates country’s first Bitcoin ATM | Zimbabwean cryptocurrencies exchange Golix has launched and activated the country’s first ever Bitcoin ATM which will allow customers to buy and sell Bitcoin.
Golix announced the launch last week in a blog post on its website. The Bitcoin A... |
