With regard to the interest rate policy, the Bank, after reducing its policy interest rate to 0.1 percent, maintained its extremely low policy interest rate level and thus provided an accommodative financial environment, contributing to underpinning economic activity.
BIS Review 45/2010  1    First, the licensing of credit reference bureaus has introduced a substitute to physical collateral, which is information capital and reputational capital as well as appropriate risk pricing. CRB Africa was launched early this month.