The Central Bank of Nigeria on Thursday says it will start the immediate refund of capital deposit to Bureau de Change promoters with pending applications.
This was contained in a circular by Ibrahim Tukur for the Director, Financial Policy and Regulation Department.
The circular said this was in furtherance of the decision to discontinue allocation of Foreign Exchange to BDC operators.
Tukur urged eligible promoters of BDCs to forward their application for refund in writing to the Director, Financial Policy and Regulation Department of the CBN.
He said: “The requests should be accompanied with the following documents:
“Telex copy of the capital deposit of N35 million; account details for the refund, which should be the same as the account from which the capital deposit originated, including the Bank name, account name and account number.
“Copy of the bank draft/telex for payment of licensing fee of N1 million (if any).”
Tukur advised eligible applicants to submit hard copies of their requests to the CBN Head Office, Central District in Abuja or the Annex in Lagos, while urging commercial banks to stop processing payments for their customers.
He said: “Soft copy of the request in above may be sent in advance of the hard copy to fprdlicensinq@cbn.gov.ng.
“In addition, all Deposit Money Banks are hereby directed to henceforth stop accepting instructions from customers to transfer capital deposit of N35 million to the designated CBN account for the purpose of applying for BDC licences.”