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At the very beginning, the kwacha was pegged to the pound sterling at a fixed rate of 1.7094 kwacha per 1 pound. Yet, after the devaluation of the US dollar on August 15, 1971, Zambia broke all its currency's ties to the British monetary unit, and pegged the kwacha to the American monetary unit.
The value of the kwacha against the dollar has been relatively consistent for the past two years and has yet to return to the recent high of almost 0.2 kwacha to the dollar in 2013. Nonetheless, the real effective exchange rate of the kwacha against a weighted average of foreign currencies improved from 88.5 in 2016 to 96.4 in 2017.
The spot exchange rate is the current exchange rate, while the forward exchange rate is an exchange rate that is quoted and traded today but for delivery and payment on a specific future date. In the retail currency exchange market, different buying and selling rates will be quoted by money dealers. Most trades are to or from the local currency.
The kwacha replaced the Malawian pound in 1971 at a rate of two kwacha to one pound. As of 30 August 2019, [update] one British pound sterling was equal to approximately 883.43 kwachas, one US dollar was equal to 725.16 kwachas and one South African rand was equal to 47.69 kwachas.
The exchange rate at which the transaction is done is called the spot exchange rate. As of 2010, the average daily turnover of global FX spot transactions reached nearly US$1.5 trillion, counting 37.4% of all foreign exchange transactions. [ 1 ]
The one hundred kwacha note of Zambia is a denomination of the Zambian currency. [1] The current paper note, first issued in 2013, features the Freedom Statue in Lusaka , the issuing authority [ 2 ] of legal tender currency in Zambia.
It was pegged to the French franc at a rate of 10 francs per kip. On 10 October 1958, the kip's peg switched to the US dollar, and was officially devalued from ₭35 to ₭80 per US dollar: [4] however, the official exchange rate did not reflect market conditions at the time, with the parallel rate reaching ₭600 per dollar by the end of 1963 ...
Kwacha may refer to: Malawian kwacha, the currency of Malawi since 1971; Zambian kwacha, the currency of Zambia since 1968 "Kwacha," a member of the UNITA political ...