{"id":27357,"date":"2025-02-22T07:45:14","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T07:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=27357"},"modified":"2025-02-22T07:45:14","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T07:45:14","slug":"the-afghan-central-bank-auctions-20-million-us-dollars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2025\/02\/the-afghan-central-bank-auctions-20-million-us-dollars\/","title":{"rendered":"The Afghan Central Bank auctions 20 million US dollars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KABUL (SW) &#8211; The Afghanistan Central Bank\/ Da Afghanistan Bank (DAB) has announced that in order to maintain and stabilize the value of the Afghani currency, it will auction 20 million US dollars on Sunday, February 23.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The DAB, under the Islamic Emirate, has asked eligible banks and exchange and money services companies to participate in this tender.<\/p>\n<p>The Afghanistan central bank has said that the winners of the auction are obliged to clear their accounts by the end of the auction day.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_27359\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27359\" style=\"width: 2560px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-27359 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/2Afghanistans-Central-Bank-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1708\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/2Afghanistans-Central-Bank-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/2Afghanistans-Central-Bank-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/2Afghanistans-Central-Bank-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/2Afghanistans-Central-Bank-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/2Afghanistans-Central-Bank-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/2Afghanistans-Central-Bank-2048x1366.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-27359\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man rides a bike in front of the Bank of Afghanistan in Kabul, Afghanistan October 8, 2021. REUTERS\/Jorge Silva<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cPartial settlement of transactions is not allowed in currency auction bids. The winners of the tender are obliged to deliver the money owed to Da Afghanistan Bank\/Afghanistan Central Bank in cash once within a certain period.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The bank has previously sold millions of dollars through similar auctions in order to maintain and stabilize the value of the Afghani currency.<\/p>\n<h6><em><strong>ENDS<\/strong><\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Afghanistan Central Bank\/ Da Afghanistan Bank (DAB) has announced that in order to maintain and stabilize the value of the Afghani currency, it will auction 20 million US dollars on Sunday, February 23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":27358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,984,981,8,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-economy","category-governance","category-afghanistan","category-headline"],"views":52,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27360,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27357\/revisions\/27360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}