Zimbabwe’s Central Bank Launches Gold-and Forex-Backed ‘Structured Currency’
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has introduced a foreign exchange and gold-backed “structured currency” to replace the struggling local currency. The structured currency banknotes will be “fully convertible into the reserve...
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