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John Rolle

Governor, Central Bank of The Bahamas

Search every verified John Rolle interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. John Rolle, governor of the Central Bank of The Bahamas, appeared on the Macro Musings podcast on September 8, 2026, to discuss the management of a small open economy with a fixed exchange rate and the country's central bank digital currency, the SandDollar. During the interview, he described the legal requirement for the central bank to hold foreign reserves equivalent to at least 50% of its domestic currency demand liabilities. He also discussed the stability of the domestic banking system, noting that risk-weighted capital ratios exceed 30% under Basel methodology, and expressed a view that these ratios should gradually decline over time to allow banks to put capital to productive use while avoiding unsustainable credit growth in the medium term. Rolle also addressed ongoing efforts related to financial inclusion and resilience, stating that the country is working on medium- and long-term issues such as broadening the space for payment service providers and fully integrating the government into the digital payments ecosystem. He characterized these efforts as part of a continuing journey to complete the development of the financial infrastructure around the SandDollar.

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“We needed to address and we are continuing to address some medium and long-term issues in terms of how we look at financial inclusion, how we address having more resilience in our financial system as well as how you broaden the space in which payment services providers can function and operate. And when I say it's a journey, what is important for us I think in terms of completing that process is building out a lot mo”

“The way the system works is that you have by law in the case of the Bahamas by law we have to maintain foreign reserves to back the domestic currency liabilities of the central bank. The law says that we must hold at least 50% of any local currency liabilities that the central bank issues. We must hold at least 50% equivalent in foreign currency. Um, oh, I think the correct terminology is the demand liabilities of th”

“The headline analysis and conclusion from all of these reports which is important not the point estimates is that public finances are consolidating and we need to take from it that public finances consolidating means that over the near to medium term the net amount that the government needs to borrow will be reducing and at some point the government will get to a point where on a net basis it's going to be repaying l”

“Ample capacity continue to exist in this credit and liquidity environment to accommodate increased government reliance on local currency financing relative to foreign currency sources in its overall debt management operations. And that's another way of saying that even in this environment there's also favorable space for even the government to borrow more in local currency without creating any pressures.”

“In so far as the financial services sector in so far as the international component is is concerned is still in a transitioning state. Um there's a lot of emphasis on how to to boost the prospect of the sector and that is enlisting you know widespread participation and input from both the government sector and the private sector. Right now, we're focused very intensively on taking the Bahamas through the process of t”

“The agency banking framework is is is about complete. We we should stress though that some financial institutions are already using agents in family islands. And so really uh the focus of this framework is to see more of those types of of structures, you know, put put in place.”

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