Instant Money Transfers in Southern Africa Face Exchange Rate Hurdles

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Instant Money Transfers in Southern Africa Face Exchange Rate Hurdles
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Sending money instantly within the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) is becoming increasingly seamless thanks to regional regulatory alignment. However, a significant challenge remains in overcoming the complexities of currency exchange. Different financial regulations and the lack of readily available exchange rates for some Sadc currencies make cross-border transactions costly for payers who incur additional charges due to multiple conversions.

send money instantly to any recipient with a phone number in Southern Africa is seen by regional regulatory authorities, including South Africa’sBut sending money across borders within the Southern Africa n Development Community – a regional block comprising 16 countries – comes with complexities, including differences in financial regulations between jurisdictions as well as the problem of how to deal with exchange rates .

“If I buy goods from Zambia, I expect to get a Zambian kwacha invoice, but my money is in rands,” Masela said in a recent exclusive interview with the Masela said the US dollar’s dominance in world trade means that there is a rand/dollar exchange rate and another between the kwacha and the dollar. This makes it possible to use dollar conversions as an intermediate step when converting from one Southern African currency to another, but this is not desirable because each time a conversion is made, there is a cost involved, making the transaction more expensive than it needs to be.

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