With an aim to create secure transaction, the Royal Monetary Authority yesterday launched the central registry system. It will act as a single, centralized source for all security interest in movable property.
The object of setting up of the central registry system is to provide data base of security interest over property right to secure loans and advances granted by banks and financial institutions.
The system is expected help increase access to credit, decreases the cost of credit, allows for more types of movable goods to be used as collateral, and gives lenders a greater certainty of where they stand in priority among others.
Meanwhile, banks and other lending institutions would be able to use the information recorded with the central registry to ensure that they do not make loans against already mortgaged properties, on which they will have no effective security interest.
