Angola’s de-dollarization drive

The country’s radical programme has put pressure on the banking sector, which in its short existence has relied heavily on the business brought in by foreign exchange. How can banks stay afloat with a lack of dollars in the system?

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Luanda, Angola. A halving of oil prices last year has increased hardship in Angola, one of the world’s most unequal countries

The sky outside the Banco Angolano de Investimentos (BAI) head office is ominously grey and has dulled the room in which João Fonseca, executive director, sits. 

His mood reflects the room’s hue. Fonseca and his team have been working tirelessly to straighten out the bank’s balance sheet, which, he admits, was “heavily reliant on foreign exchange”.

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