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The artcle from last year talks about the effects of war in Ukraine's financial stability. Ukraine's financial crisis deepened, as the National Bank drastically limited access to scarce foreign currency in a fresh effort to halt the hryvnia currency's free fall, and Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened to halt gas deliveries. The National Bank introduced a three-day ban on foreign-exchange purchases by companies through banks, and limited purchases by banks to 0.5% of their capital.

Nigeria is experiencing currency depreciation, losing the value of it's currency. Its debt will be raised, which is already large due to foreign lending. The loss of value can also be attributed to its central banks deliverate devaluation as a result of trying to set an exchange rate.

The Chinese government hope on securing a place for the yuan in the basket alongside the U.S. dollar, the euro, the British pound and Japanese yen as part of its goal of raising the international profile of the currency. However, this may add a further depreciation pressure on the yuan, complicating Beijing's attempts to hold the currency stable without draining its foreign exchange reserves too rapidly.

Exchange rate movements still have sizable effects on exports and imports, according to new research from the International Monetary Fund.