{"id":257595,"date":"2026-07-21T00:37:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T22:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/?p=257595"},"modified":"2026-07-22T00:44:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T22:44:21","slug":"exclusive-central-bank-nearly-100-billion-dinars-in-foreign-currency-sold-to-commercial-banks-to-date-we-will-continue-selling-foreign-currency-for-all-purposes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/exclusive-central-bank-nearly-100-billion-dinars-in-foreign-currency-sold-to-commercial-banks-to-date-we-will-continue-selling-foreign-currency-for-all-purposes\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: Central Bank: Nearly 100 Billion Dinars in Foreign Currency Sold to Commercial Banks to Date; We Will Continue Selling Foreign Currency for All Purposes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <strong>Central Bank of Libya<\/strong> told our source exclusively that the total amount of foreign currency sold to commercial banks as of <strong>July 21, 2026<\/strong>, reached <strong>US$15.7 billion<\/strong>, equivalent to approximately <strong>100 billion Libyan dinars<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The amount was distributed as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Approximately <strong>US$5 billion<\/strong> for personal purposes, including bank cards and cash.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Approximately <strong>US$10.7 billion<\/strong> for letters of credit, transfers, and cards for small traders.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Central Bank added that it has also approved applications for <strong>letters of credit and transfers worth approximately US$3.5 billion<\/strong>. These funds will be sold to commercial banks in the coming period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This brings the total volume of demand received by the Central Bank for <strong>letters of credit and transfers alone to approximately US$14 billion<\/strong>, covering the market&#8217;s needs for the coming months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Central Bank further confirmed that it will <strong>continue selling foreign currency to commercial banks for all purposes<\/strong> in order to meet domestic market demand for various goods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the Central Bank, the policy aims to <strong>absorb accumulated demand and stabilize the market<\/strong>, particularly in terms of exchange rates and the availability of goods across different categories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Central Bank of Libya told our source exclusively that the total amount of foreign currency sold to commercial banks as of July 21, 2026, reached US$15.7 billion, equivalent to approximately 100 billion Libyan dinars. The amount was distributed as follows: The Central Bank added that it has also approved applications for letters of credit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":257596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257595"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257598,"href":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257595\/revisions\/257598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}