Central Bank of Myanmar

Myanmar’s currency, the kyat, is continuing its rapid devaluation and has reached a record low against the US dollar and other major currencies in...

The Central Bank of Myanmar on order of the country’s military government has issued a directive that companies and individual borrowers holding foreign loans...

Myanmar’s central bank has announced an exemption for foreign entities from a controversial new policy requiring all their foreign exchange held in banks or...

Myanmar’s currency, the kyat, has fallen to a new all-time low against the US dollar this September amid growing concerns about the stability of...

Myanmar's central bank has increasing difficulties to prevent the depreciation of the country's currency, the kyat, which has reached new record lows these days. The...

The general strength of the US dollar and poorly managed currency control by the Myanmar central bank has led to another plunge of the...

Giving millions of “unbanked” people the opportunity to undertake money deals by simply using their mobile phones has turned out to be a highly...

Australia & New Zealand Banking (ANZ) and three Japanese banks on October 1 won coveted licenses to operate in Myanmar, after decades in which...

Myanmar will allow five companies to be listed on the Yangon Stock Exchange when it is being launched next year, local media reports said...

Thailand-based Kasikorn Bank is planning to launch its branches in Myanmar, according to a statement by the bank. Nuttaphong Visitkichakarn, an official from the...

Economists forecast that Myanmar will face possible long term debts along with high inflation in the next three years due to an annual budget...

The Yangon Stock Exchange, the first of its kind in Myanmar, aims to start trading by October 2015 and will begin with a starting...

Myanmar has officially opened a first-of-its-kind bank on January 11 in its commercial capital Yangon, Eleven Myanmar reported. The Construction and Housing Development (CHD) Bank ...

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Myanmar are uneasy as 2015 approaches, when the implementation of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) is expected to...

Myanmar has allowed the Export-Import Bank of Korea (Exim Bank) to open a representative office in Yangon, according to the Directorate of Investment and...

Myanmar will allow selected foreign banks to start offering limited financial services in the country by 2014, a senior central bank official said according...

The vice-president of the Central Bank of Myanmar, Daw Khin Saw Oo, told the country's  parliament on November 13 that the bank was planning...