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Banking Laws And Regulations

The Banking and Financial Services ACT No 7 of 2017TheBankingandFinanceActNo7of2017.pdf Banking And Financial Services Act(BFSA)TheBankingandFinancialServicesAct2017.pdf 03 Jan 2007 Revision to Minimum Start up Capital for Bank53_CapitalRevision.pdf 02 JAN 2002 The Prohibition And Prevention Of Money Laundering Act53_TheProhibitionandPreventionofMoneyLaunderingAct.pdf The Credit Reporting Act 2018TheCreditReportingAct2018.pdf The Movable Property (Security Interest) Act 2016TheMovablePropertySecurityInterestAct2016.pdf
BANK OF ZAMBIA STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS (SI)

Statutory Instrument No 38 of 2018 The Banking and Financial Services Act Commencement Order, 2018CommencementOrderBFSA2017.pdf Statutory Instrument 179 of 1995 Cost Of Borrowing RegulationsStatutoryInstrumentNo.179_CostOfBorrowing.pdf Statutory Instrument 180 of 1995 Payment Fees RegulationsStatutoryInstrumentNo.180_PaymentOfFees.pdf Statutory Instrument 181 of 1995 Return of Unclaimed Funds RegulationsStatutoryInstrumentNo.181_ReturnOfUnclaimedFunds.pdf Statutory Instrument 182 of 1995 Reserve Account RegulationsStatutoryInstrumentNo.182_ReserveAccount.pdf Statutory Instrument 183 of 1995 Disclosure Of Deposits Charges and Interest RequlationsStatutoryInstrumentNo.183_DisclosureofDepositChargesandInterest.pdf Statutory Instrument 184 of 1995 Capital Adequecy RegulationsStatutoryInstrumentNo.184_CapitalAdequacy.pdf Statutory Instrument 185 of 1995 Fixed Assets Investment RegulationsStatutoryInstrumentNo.185_FixedAssetsInvestment.pdf Statutory Instrument 57 of 1996 Foreign Exchange Risk Management And Exposure RegulationsStatutoryInstrumentNo.57_ForeignExchangeRiskManagementAndExposure.pdf Statutory Instrument 96 of 1996 Large Loan Exposure Regulations StatutoryInstrumentNo.96_LargeLoansExposures.pdf Statutory Instrument 97 of 1996 Insider Lending Regulations StatutoryInstrumentNo.97_InsiderLending.pdf Statutory Instrument 142 of 1996 Classification And ProvisionsStatutoryInstrumentNo.142_ClassificationAndProvisioningOfLoans.pdf Statutory Instrument 36 of 2003 The Banking And Financial Services (Bureau de Change)2003StatutoryInstrumentsSI38.pdf Statutory Instrument 3 of 2006 The Banking And Financial Services (Microfinance) Regulations, 2006BozGazette.pdf
BANK OF ZAMBIA DIRECTIVES 

Bank of Zambia Customer Complaints Handling and Resolution Directives 2022BankofZambiaCustomerComplaintsHandlingandResolutionDirectives.pdf Bank of Zambia Agent Banking Directives 2022 GazzettedBankofZambiaAgentBankingDirectives2022Gazzetted.pdf Microfinance Classification and Provisioning Directives, 2018MicrofinanceClassificationandProvisioningDirectives2018GazetteNoticeNo.892of2018.pdf 30 June 2017 The Bank of Zambia Anti-Money Laundering and Combating Financing of Terrorism or Proliferation Directives, 2017BoZ-AML-Directives-June-2017-Final-2.pdf 01 June 2004 Bank of Zambia Anti-Money Laundering Directives 53BANKOFZAMBIAANTIMONEYLAUNDERINGDIRECTIVES.pdf Banking and Financial Services - Corporate Governance Directives, 2016CorporateGovernanceDirectives.pdf Banking and Financial Services - Corporate Governance (Amendment) Directives, 2016Amendment.pdf
BANK OF ZAMBIA GUIDELINES 

01 June 2006 Bank of Zambia Prudential Guidelines on Application Of International Financial Reporting53CircularIFRS.pdf 01 Sept 2008 Risk Management Guidelines 53_RiskManagementGuidelinesSept2008.pdf 01 Dec 2014 Islamic Finance Guidelines53_IslamicFinanceGuidelines.pdf 05 DEC 2014 Guidelines on Outsourcing53_GuidelinesonOutsourcing.pdf
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