About Rescue Exchanges

Five questions every figure answers

1. What is the rate? Buy, sell and mid/reference, where the source publishes them. “—” means not published. Nothing is filled in.
2. Whose rate is it? The institution or source is named next to every figure.
3. When was it updated? The date, and time where recorded, in Juba time. Figures older than 30 days are marked outdated.
4. What market does it represent? One of the market types below.
5. Has it been verified? Shown with a verification label.

Market types

Official / Reference

Rates published by the Bank of South Sudan. Shown as the official / reference rate.

Commercial bank

Buy and sell rates displayed by a named commercial bank.

Forex bureau

Buy and sell rates displayed by a named forex bureau.

Unofficial market

Informal parallel-market (street) rates. Never presented as official, and never averaged with official rates.

Reference feed

Daily reference rates from a third-party data provider. Useful for regional comparison; not a dealing rate.

Verification and publishing

Information moves through Draft → Review → Verified → Published. Editors prepare records, and reviewers check the source before a rate is marked verified. Every rate record must have a currency, a value, a source, a market type and a date before it can be published.

✓Verified

Checked against its source by a Rescue Exchanges reviewer.

✓Provider-submitted · verified

Submitted by the institution itself, then checked by a reviewer.

!Unverified

Published with its source, but not yet independently checked.

!Automated feed

Received automatically from a third-party data provider.

Calculations

• Mid rate: the source's stated reference rate if it publishes one; otherwise the average of buy and sell, labelled “calculated”.
• Change: latest record compared with the previous record from the same source. Changes under 0.01% are shown as unchanged.
• Rankings: sorted from the latest verified record of each participating institution. Labels name the metric (e.g. “highest displayed buy rate”). No institution is called “best”.
• History: only stored records. Values are never estimated between dates.
• Commodities: shown as market indicators. No causal link to exchange rates is claimed.

Methodology notes

Official rates

Published by the Bank of South Sudan (BoSS). Updated by platform administrators when BoSS releases new circulars. These represent the central bank's official buy/sell rates.

Street market rates

Collected from licensed forex bureaus operating in Juba. These reflect the actual cash market. Rates may vary by 1-3% between providers depending on location, volume, and negotiation.

Regional rates

Sourced from open.er-api.com — a free exchange rate API that aggregates data from European Central Bank and other institutional sources. Updated daily.

Important

All rates are indicative. Actual rates at any forex bureau will depend on transaction size, counterparty, and market conditions at that moment. Always confirm the rate before transacting.

Data sources

• Bank of South Sudan — Official / reference rates published by the central bank.
• Juba street market (parallel) — Unofficial parallel-market cash rates in Juba. Not an official rate.
• ExchangeRate-API (open.er-api.com) — Free daily reference rates against USD.
• fawazahmed0 currency-api — Fallback daily reference rates, used only when open.er-api.com is unavailable.
• Bank of South Sudan registers — lists of licensed commercial banks and forex bureaus, as transcribed on this site. Licence status is calculated from the recorded expiry date.