Central Bank of Tunisia and Afghanistan can create crypto bonds to attract investment

The heads of central banks of Afghanistan and Tunisia said that their countries are considering the possibility of issuing sovereign cryptocurrency bonds. Officials reported this at the annual Spring Meetings of the Board of Governors of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group in Washington.

Governor of the Central Bank of Afghanistan, Khalil Sediq, said they are seriously considering crypto bonds as a tool to attract the $ 5.8 billion private investment needed by the country's mining, energy and agricultural sectors.

Since the country is limited in opportunities for concessional lending due to the ongoing internal armed conflict, the issue could be the issue of bonds and futures for metals, said Sedik. The country hopes to use for this its reserves of lithium, estimated at more than $ 3 trillion.

The head of the Central Bank of Tunisia, Marouane El Abassi, in turn, said that the country has already established a working group, which is also seriously studying the issue of issuing sovereign bonds to Bitcoin . He recalled that Tunisia was one of the first countries in the world to issue electronic currency, an e-dinar, in which payments are received by national mail.

Publication date 04/22/2019
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