{"id":231543,"date":"2026-04-27T03:21:57","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T01:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-cbl-raises-bank-capital-threshold-by-50-percent-in-push-to-strengthen-financial-system\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T03:21:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T01:21:57","slug":"liberia-cbl-raises-bank-capital-threshold-by-50-percent-in-push-to-strengthen-financial-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-cbl-raises-bank-capital-threshold-by-50-percent-in-push-to-strengthen-financial-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: CBL Raises Bank Capital Threshold By 50 Percent in Push to Strengthen Financial System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Monrovia \u2014 The Central Bank of Liberia (CBL) has announced a significant policy shift aimed at reinforcing the country&#8217;s banking sector, mandating an increase in the minimum capital requirement for commercial banks from US$10 million to US$15 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"55\">The directive, issued under the authority of the Executive Governor and backed by the Central Bank of Liberia Act of 1999 and the Bank-Financial Institutions and Bank-Financial Holding Companies Act of 2026, will take effect on December 31, 2026&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604240529.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monrovia \u2014 The Central Bank of Liberia (CBL) has announced a significant policy shift aimed at reinforcing the country&#8217;s banking sector, mandating an increase in the minimum capital requirement for commercial banks from US$10 million to US$15 million. The directive, issued under the authority of the Executive Governor and backed by the Central Bank of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":231544,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,7089,6959,10022,5063,4712,1107,257,6720,6354,5234,254,6433,7232,14449],"class_list":["post-231543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bank","tag-capital","tag-cbl","tag-financial","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-percent","tag-push","tag-raises","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strengthen","tag-system","tag-threshold"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}