Economía

Haití: Transferencias de dinero estará disponible en EE.UU., dice Banco Central

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haití (defend.ht) - El gobernador del Banco de la República de Haití (BRH), Charles Castel, niega cualquier intento de las autoridades monetarias y financieras para ordenar las transferencias de pago en gourdes. Se asegura de que los pagos se realizarán en dólares y rechaza cualquier intervención brutal en el sistema.

Mr. Castel said that Central bank has encouraged homes to provide transfers in better exchange rates for receivers, in an interview with radio and TV Metropole (Port-au-Prince). The aim is to encourage recipients to take out their transfers in gourds themselves. This strategy begins to bear fruit, he adds.

According to a survey by BRH, 75% of transfer receivers convert the amount in gourd. Mr. Castel points out that the majority of funds received from abroad are used to pay rent, school fees and buy food.

The remittances from abroad the monetary raise concerns among Haitian authorities that are struggling to solve the problem of market liquidity. Mr. Castel urges market players to use methods other than cash transaction. He shows that the cash represents 2% of the funds in the United States when it is around 20% in Haiti.

The monetary authorities have announced the commissioning in 2012 of the debit card to facilitate transactions between banks. Meanwhile, the interbank payment service (SPI) introduced 3 years ago must be popularized.

These new tools offer significant benefits to market players. The period of compensation for the Debit Card and the SPI will be reduced to 48 hours.