Nigeria Banks Ration Dollars as Regulator Signals Stopping Sales

  • Lenders conserving the greenback to meet import obligations
  • Central bank urging banks to source their own foreign-exchange
A United Bank of Africa branch in Abuja, Nigeria.Photographer: KC Nwakalor/Bloomberg
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Nigerian lenders cut the dollar spending limits on local currency cards to free more resources to fund imports after the central bank signaled it will stop foreign-exchange sales to banks.