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The official commercial-bank rate and the parallel-market rate side by side, with the gap between them and how it has moved.
Official bank rate
161.8015TRANSACTIONAL
Bunna · rate day 2026-11-01
Captured Nov 1, 2026, 14:27 EAT
Commercial-bank USD/ETB transfer rate (buy), best bank of the day
NBE reference
160.9430INDICATIVE
NBE · rate day 2026-10-30 · 2 days old
Captured Nov 1, 2026, 09:00 EAT
The central bank's own indicative USD/ETB reference (buy). Not a commercial bank.
Parallel market
192.7000USDT/ETB
EBR Exchange · rate day 2026-11-01
Captured Nov 1, 2026, 14:43 EAT
Unregulated P2P order-book quote in USDT/ETB, executable side (bid). Not a bank or NBE rate.
Parallel market is unregulated
30.8985ETB
19.10% of the official bank rate
Both rates were observed on 2026-11-01, so the gap compares the same day.
Against the NBE reference the gap is 31.7570 ETB (19.73%).
59 days in the last 90 carry a gap on both sides (66% of the window).
The line breaks on every day that was not observed on both sides. No value is carried forward and none is interpolated.
| Date | Official bank | Parallel | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-01 | 161.8015Bunna | 192.7000EBR Exchange | 30.898519.10% |
| 2026-10-31 | 162.4921Wegagen | 192.7000EBR Exchange | 30.207918.59% |
| 2026-10-30 | 162.4921Wegagen | 192.7000EBR Exchange | 30.207918.59% |
| 2026-10-29 | 162.4921Wegagen | 192.7000EBR Exchange | 30.207918.59% |
| 2026-10-28 | 162.3239Wegagen | 192.7000EBR Exchange | 30.376118.71% |
| 2026-10-27 | 162.2541Oromia | 192.7000EBR Exchange | 30.445918.76% |
| 2026-10-26 | 162.2549Hibret | 193.5000EBR Exchange | 31.245119.26% |
| 2026-10-25 | 162.1721Anbesa | 192.7000EBR Exchange | 30.527918.82% |
| 2026-10-24 | 162.1739Wegagen | 192.7000EBR Exchange | 30.526118.82% |
| 2026-10-23 | 162.1739Wegagen | 194.0000EBR Exchange | 31.826119.62% |
A gap is shown only for a calendar date on which both sides were observed. No value is carried forward, and no line is drawn across a day with no observation.
The official quote is a commercial-bank USD/ETB transfer rate and the parallel quote is a P2P order-book quote. They are different instruments, so part of the gap is that difference in basis rather than a market premium.
The parallel market is unregulated. Nothing here is a recommendation to use it.
Currently collected EBR Exchange.
Catalogued but not collected All P2P Market, Sendove.
Retired and excluded from this series Binance P2P, Bybit P2P, Ethio Black Market, KuCoin P2P, OKX P2P.
Ethio Black Market has 23 days of data (2026-08-10 to 2026-09-04) that is not chained into the series above, because switching source mid-series would read as a price move.
NBE prohibits unauthorized Birr-paired P2P/crypto trading; unregulated market reference only.
USDT/ETB executable P2P marketplace quote; not an official USD cash or bank-transfer quote.
The venue also publishes its own reference line at 161.8212 (24h vwap). That is not its tradable price and is not used for the gap.