{"id":13863,"date":"2025-10-27T09:43:36","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T07:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/rand-slightly-firmer\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:26:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:26:37","slug":"rand-slightly-firmer","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/rand-slightly-firmer\/","title":{"rendered":"Rand slightly firmer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The South African(SA) currency, Rand is slightly firmer after the greenback declined against a basket of currencies.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>The removal of SA from a global financial crime watchdog\u2019s list of countries under heightened scrutiny also helped the local currency.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>The Financial Action Task Force\u2019s decision to remove SA \u00a0from the greylist is a major boost for its reputation and financial system.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>Africa\u2019s biggest economy was added to the grey list in February 2023 following criticism of its anti-money laundering and anti-terrorist funding mechanisms.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>The Rand is currently trading at R17.20 ($1.00 )to the United States Dollar.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":12528,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-13863","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"The Financial Action Task Force\u2019s decision to remove SA  from the greylist is a major boost for its reputation and financial system.","published_date":null,"news_description":"The Financial Action Task Force\u2019s decision to remove SA  from the greylist is a major boost for its reputation and financial system.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18786,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13863\/revisions\/18786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=13863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}