Hemmati Discusses Monetary Cooperation With South Africa's Central Bank Governor on Sidelines of BRICS Meeting in India

Abdolnasser Hemmati, Governor of the Central Bank of Iran, who traveled to India to attend the BRICS finance ministers and central bank governors' meeting, met and held talks with South African Reserve Bank Governor Lesetja Kganyago on the sidelines of the gathering on Thursday, August 13, 2026 (22 Mordad 1405). According to the Central Bank of Iran's website, as carried by Donya-e-Eqtesad, the two discussed the potential for expanding monetary and banking cooperation between the two countries and ways to facilitate trade transactions and strengthen ties between their banking institutions. Hemmati had earlier met, on Wednesday, August 12 (21 Mordad), with his Indian counterpart Sanjay Malhotra and with Dilma Rousseff, president of the New Development Bank (NDB).