By Own Correspondent| The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) goveenor John Mangudya has denied that government prejudiced holders of US dollar accounts with the coming in of the forex interbank market and the subsequent devaluation of the RTGS dollar.

Mangudya said all USD nostro dollar bank accounts still maintain their value but the move was aimed at bringing transparency in the foreign exchange market as well as removing distortions.

The RBZ has described it as a fallacy to assume that the US dollar accounts opened with banks in 2009 still held US dollars up until recently when the RTGS dollars were introduced last week.

The clarification comes amid an outcry by the banking public that they were severely prejudiced by unfairly converting US dollars into RTGS dollars which are now trading at a rate of around 1 is to 2.5.

He said:

“A lot has happened on the monetary side over the years which has become clear that what people are holding are not US dollars despite the fact that they opened US dollar accounts in 2009. Banks also ring fenced the accounts of those who deposited US dollars which explains why we made it a point that the two accounts be separated last year.”-StateMedia

He also said they are looking at creating inflation-linked investment products to preserve the value of pensions.

Modalities to allow access by traders on the ZSE to the forex interbank market are being put in place to allow settlement of foreign transactions