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Why Emefiele wants banks restricted from access to bonds and treasury bills

Damilare Famuyiwa by Damilare Famuyiwa
May 22, 2019
in Business News, Politics
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CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele

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Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, has sought the restriction of banks’ access to government securities such as bonds and treasury bills.

Speaking at the recently-held Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting in Abuja, Emefiele said the apex bank needs to initiate policies that will facilitate the restriction.

Reason for the restriction: Emefiele said the Monetary Policy Committee members voted to restrict Deposit Money Bank’s access to government securities in a bid to protect the private sector. According to him, banks’ easy access to government security lead to the crowding out of private sector lending and this is not good for the economy, he said.

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“In view of the abundant opportunities available to banks for unfettered access to government securities, which tends to crowd out private sector lending, the Committee called on the Bank to provide a mechanism for limiting DMBs access to government securities so as to redirect banks’ lending focus to the private sector, noting that this would spur the much-needed growth in the economy.  It called on the government to use all machinery at its disposal to increase tax revenue to enable the government to fund its budget adequately.”

Speaking further, Emefiele disclosed that banks have a required minimum number of treasury bills they must invest in so as to remain liquid. However, as the CBN has observed, banks have been focusing on buying government securities instead of focusing on providing financing facilities to the private sector.

“the truth is that according to our own regulations, there is a particular minimum percentage of treasury bills or government securities that the bank must invest in order to remain liquid. But again, we have observed – and unfortunately too and increasingly so  – that the banks, rather than focusing on granting credit to the private sector, they tend to direct their focus to mainly in buying government securities.”

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Comments 2

  1. Brian says:
    May 22, 2019 at 8:38 pm

    This, the CBN, ought to have done a long time ago!

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  2. Anodebenze says:
    May 24, 2019 at 1:11 pm

    Whow,wow.i do not really believe this.if they do this,with the stamp duties,inflation will come done ,very dramatically.The centre is very powerful.like lagos a cormmercial centre.it is possible other cormmercial centre will spring up to compete and rivals with lagos.IF LGA PROVIDE SOME ESSENTIAL,BASIC AND UTILTIES FACILITIES.WE NUMBER LAGOS AS OUR ONLY MAJOR COMMERCIAL TOWN.
    With this stamp duties.it will encourages spending.maybe a social security,business and consumers will have confidence and will also ushers creally competition in Nigerian bank

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