Washington DC – The Central Bank of Eswatini is represented at the highest level at the 2026 IMF–World Bank Spring Meetings currently underway in Washington D.C., with Governor Dr Phil Mnisi heading the Kingdom’s delegation at one of the world’s most significant gatherings of financial policymakers.
The delegation’s week opened on Monday morning with a session involving the Mission Chief and Executive Director of the IMF Group 1 Constituency. The meeting centred on key developments in Eswatini and how the IMF’s staff engagement with the Kingdom would be structured going forward.
A session on market-based finance followed, bringing together a broad cross-section of Eswatini’s official team including representatives from the Ministry of Finance and the Centre for Financial Intelligence. The discussions focused on the role of capital markets in financing growth, deepening domestic financial systems and attracting private capital in a volatile global environment.
The delegation held a preparatory meeting on Sunday afternoon, ahead of the formal programme, to coordinate how officials would be deployed across simultaneous sessions during the week. The topics being covered span financial stability, sovereign debt sustainability, capital flow management and regulatory oversight of non-bank financial intermediation.
The broader programme for the week includes forums on debt vulnerabilities and accountability, global financial stability risks, capital account openness, the consequences of aid retrenchment across Sub-Saharan Africa and private sector mobilisation through market-based solutions. While some sessions are open forums, others are restricted technical dialogues bringing together central bankers, finance ministries and international financial institutions.
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