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Currency in Eswatini

SZL · Swazi lilangeni

Regulator in Eswatini

Central Bank of Eswatini (CBE)(opens in a new tab)

Local accounts in Eswatini

Eswatini stays outside the IBAN scheme: accounts carry the bank's branch code plus its own account number, and the lilangeni moves inside the Common Monetary Area pegged to the rand, with transfers beyond that area citing the bank's SWIFT/BIC.

Payments in Eswatini

Eswatini sits in the Southern African Common Monetary Area, and the lilangeni is pegged at par to the South African rand, which also circulates; interbank settlement runs through the CBE's payment infrastructure with retail EFT and card switching between the country's banks, while mobile money (notably MTN MoMo and Eswatini Mobile's services) is the dominant instant retail rail for most people, including cross-border remittances to and from South Africa.

Sources: Central Bank of Eswatini · Central Bank of Eswatini: national payment system · IBAN registry: countries without IBAN