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Richard (not his re­al name) says he is not on­ly dis­ap­point­ed by the re­cent re­lease of the Ex­im­Bank for­eign ex­change al­lo­ca­tion list—he is deeply con­cerned.

The sea­soned busi­ness­man, who built his com­pa­ny from the ground up and has thrived for decades, told the Busi­ness Guardian the dis­clo­sure is more than a breach of con­fi­den­tial­i­ty. It sets a dan­ger­ous prece­dent that un­der­mines the trust busi­ness­es place in the coun­try’s fi­nan­cial in­sti­tu­tions and Gov­ern­ment agen­cies.

“There was no ben­e­fit to do­ing that. What is the ben­e­fit? Be­cause these are not the car­tel peo­ple. They are le­git­i­mate busi­ness peo­ple...We are the sec­ond largest GDP con­trib­u­tor to GDP in the coun­try. We em­ploy about 65,000 peo­ple af­ter the Gov­ern­ment. So, why pe­nalise us?,” he said.