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The National Bank of Panama, one of two government-owned banks, was responsible for nonmonetary aspects of central banking in Panama, assisted by the National Banking Commission (Superintendencia del Mercado de Valores), which was created along with the country's International Financial Center, and was charged with licensing and supervising banks.
US Dollar (37) Euro (28) Composite (8) Other (9) No separate legal tender (16) Ecuador El Salvador Marshall Islands Micronesia Palau Panama Timor-Leste Andorra Monaco San Marino Vatican City Kosovo Montenegro Kiribati Nauru Tuvalu; Currency board (11) Djibouti Hong Kong ; ECCU Antigua and Barbuda Dominica
Template to convert other currencies into United States dollars, by year, based on information from the International Monetary Fund Template parameters [Edit template data] Parameter Description Type Status Amount 1 value in foreign currency to convert to USD Example 22816 Number required Country code 2 country ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code Example MEX Line required year year Year to convert ...
2.00 BBD = 1.00 USD Caribbean Netherlands: United States dollar: USD: De Nederlandsche Bank (monetary authority) Federal Reserve Bank (U.S. dollar) float Cayman Islands: Cayman Islands dollar: KYD: Cayman Islands Monetary Authority: 1.00 KYD = 1.20 USD Cuba: Cuban peso: CUP: Central Bank of Cuba: 24.00 CUP = 1.00 USD Sint Maarten: Netherlands ...
Full currency substitution has mostly occurred in Latin America, the Caribbean and the Pacific, as many countries in those regions see the United States Dollar as a stable currency compared to the national one. [9] For example, Panama underwent full currency substitution by adopting the US dollar as legal tender in 1904.
Currency Central bank Peg Anguilla: Eastern Caribbean dollar: Eastern Caribbean Central Bank Antigua and Barbuda Dominica Grenada Montserrat Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Argentina: Argentine peso: Banco Central de la República Argentina Belize: Belize dollar: Central Bank of Belize: 2 BZD = 1 USD Bermuda
Some countries that have adopted the U.S. dollar issue their own coins: See Ecuadorian centavo coins, Panamanian Balboa and East Timorese centavo coins. Some other countries link their currency to U.S. dollar at a fixed exchange rate. The local currencies of Bermuda and the Bahamas can be freely exchanged at a 1:1 ratio for USD.
The Panamanian currency is officially the balboa, fixed at a rate of 1:1 with the United States dollar since Panamanian independence in 1903. In practice, Panama is dollarized : U.S. dollars are legal tender and used for all paper currency, and whilst Panama has its own coinage, U.S. coins are widely used.