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Currency in Tajikistan

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Regulator in Tajikistan

National Bank of Tajikistan (NBT)(opens in a new tab)

Local accounts in Tajikistan

There is no IBAN registry entry for Tajikistan: accounts follow the post-Soviet 20-digit numbering convention (balance account, currency code and bank identification combined), and international payments quote the bank's SWIFT/BIC together with that number.

Payments in Tajikistan

Interbank payments settle through the National Bank's payment arrangements, and domestic card transactions run through the national card switching systems used by Tajik banks, often co-badged with Visa/Mastercard. Remittances are the decisive fact of this market: money sent home from Russia and elsewhere has historically made up a very large share of GDP, so inbound transfer corridors matter far more than domestic instant payments, and much of that flow moves through money transfer operators and card-based schemes rather than bank-account rails.

Sources: National Bank of Tajikistan · NBT: payment systems · IBAN registry: Tajikistan (no IBAN entry)