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The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe issued most of the banknotes and other types of currency notes in its history, including the bearer cheques and special agro-cheques ("agro" being short for agricultural) that circulated between 15 September 2003 and 31 December 2008: the Standard Chartered Bank also issued their own emergency cheques from 2003 to 2004.
Zimbabwean bond notes were a form of banknote in circulation in Zimbabwe. Released by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, the notes were stated to not be a currency in itself but rather legal tender near money pegged equally against the U.S. dollar. In 2014, prior to the release of bond notes, a series of bond coins entered circulation. [1]
In November 2016 backed by a US$200 million Afreximbank loan the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe began issuing $2 bond notes. [4] Two months later US$15 million worth of new $5 bond notes were also released. [5] Further plans for $10 and $20 bond notes were ruled out by the central bank's governor, John Mangudya. [6]
Zimbabwe will introduce higher denomination bank notes to increase the amount of cash in circulation, the finance minister said in a government notice on Thursday, at a time inflation is soaring ...
Due to non-payment of arrears, lending was suspended after 2000, but the World Bank has remained involved using non-lending instruments and trust funds. [4] Zimbabwe's debt to the World Bank currently values at $1.5 billion, and $1.3 billion of that is debt in arrears. [4] The front of the paper Zimbabwe dollar, which circulated from 1980 and 1982.
AFC Commercial Bank Ltd, state-owned; African Banking Corporation Zimbabwe Ltd (BancABC), part of Atlas Mara Group; CBZ Bank Ltd; Ecobank Zimbabwe Ltd, part of Ecobank Group; FBC Bank Ltd, part of the FBC Group; First Capital Bank Zimbabwe Ltd, part of First Capital Bank Group; Metbank Ltd; Nedbank Zimbabwe Ltd, part of Nedbank Group; NMB Bank Ltd
The bank was founded in 1996 as Trust Merchant Bank. It transformed its banking licence to commercial banking licence in 2000, paving the way for its transition to Trust Banking Corporation. The bank grew rapidly, and by 2003, it had become the largest bank in Zimbabwe by balance sheet size. However, its growth came with several problems.
The bank traces its history to the Reserve Bank of Rhodesia, founded on 22 May 1964, but which succeeded the Bank of Rhodesia and Nyasaland (1956-1963) which had been liquidated at the collapse of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland in 1963. [3]