Central bank shocks observers with ‘radical and unprecedented’ monetary tightening, aimed at consolidating recent gains made by the metical and curbing inflation Bank of Mozambique raises lending rate 150bp to 9.75%, deposit rate 100bp to 3.75% Commercial banks are struggling to comply with obligatory reserve ratio, which stays at 10.5% Foreign currency reserves have dipped below…...

Bank of Mozambique governor Ernesto Gove and the executive board, November 2015. Photo: Bank of Mozambique