Turnover in I&E Forex window rises 34% to $27bn in 9 months

The volume of dollars traded in the Investors and Exporters (I&E) window of the Nigerian foreign exchange (Forex) market rose by  34 per cent, Year-on-Year (YoY) to  $27.16 billion, in the nine months to September 2022 (9M’22) from $20.25 billion in the corresponding period of 2021 (9M’21).

Vanguard’s findings from Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, data on forex showed that in the first quarter of the year (Q1’22) turnover stood at $11.9 billion.

However, transaction volume began to decline in the second quarter when turnover fell 30 percent quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) to $8.33 billion and further down  by 16 percent to N6.93 billion in Q3’22.

This follows the 13.6 per cent Month-on-Month (MoM) decline to $2.02 billion in September from $2.34 billion in August 2022.

Vanguard’s findings from the August transactions data in the window as published by FMDQ showed that  turnover stood at $168.22 million in the first two days of September.

In the second week turnover was N348.48 from, and further rose by 19.8 per cent to $417.81 million in the third week.

In the fourth week, turnover rose by 57 per cent to N658.32 before moderating down by 16 percent to N566.13  in the fifth week.

Meanwhile, the naira depreciated by N6.59 kobo during the review period, as the indicative exchange rate of the window rose to N436.03  per dollar on 30th of September from N429.44 per dollar on  August 31st .

In a related development, the Naira depreciated by N37 in the parallel market in the month of September.

(Vanguard)