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Full List of 16 Banking Transactions Exempted From New CBN Cybersecurity Levy

NewsOnline Nigeria highlights all the 16 banking transactions that are exempted from the CBN’s new cybersecurity levy in this piece:

by NewsOnline Nigeria
May 8, 2024
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CBN Cybersecurity Levy

The full list of 16 banking transactions exempted from the new CBN Cybersecurity Levy has emerged.

NewsOnline Nigeria reports that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) led by Yemi Cardoso, directed all banks to commence charging a 0.5 percent cybersecurity levy on all electronic transactions within the country.

 

 

This Nigeria news platform understands that the CBN stated this in a circular signed by the Director, of Payments System Management Department, Chibuzo Efobi; and the Director of, Financial Policy and Regulation Department, Haruna Mustafa on Monday, May 6, 2024.

 

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The circular, which was directed to all commercial, merchant, non-interest, and payment service banks, among others; noted that the implementation of the levy would start two weeks from Monday, May 6, 2024.

 

“The levy shall be applied at the point of electronic transfer origination, then deducted and remitted by the financial institution. The deducted amount shall be reflected in the customer’s account with the narration, ‘Cybersecurity Levy,’” the circular partly read.

 

 

NewsOnline Nigeria highlights all the 16 banking transactions that are exempted from the CBN’s new cybersecurity levy in this piece:

  1. Loan disbursements and repayments
  2. Salary payments
  3. Intra-account transfers within the same bank or between different banks for the same customer
  4. Intra-bank transfers between customers of the same bank
  5. Other Financial Institutions instructions to their correspondent banks
  6. Interbank placements,
  7. Banks’ transfers to CBN and vice-versa
  8. Inter-branch transfers within a bank
  9. Cheque clearing and settlements
  10. Letters of Credits
  11. Banks’ recapitalisation-related funding – only bulk funds movement from collection accounts
  12. Savings and deposits, including transactions involving long-term investments such as Treasury Bills, Bonds, and Commercial Papers.
  13. Government Social Welfare Programmes transactions e.g. Pension payments
  14. Non-profit and charitable transactions, including donations to registered non-profit organisations or charities
  15. Educational institutions’ transactions, including tuition payments and other transactions involving schools, universities, or other educational institutions
  16. Transactions involving the bank’s internal accounts such as suspense accounts, clearing accounts, profit and loss accounts, inter-branch accounts, reserve accounts, nostro and vostro accounts, and escrow accounts.
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