Re­pub­lic Bank re­duced the US-dol­lar spend­ing lim­it on some of its cred­it cards by 50 per cent last week as a re­sult of in­creased de­mand for for­eign ex­change and the prospect of re­duced short-term in­flows of for­eign ex­change, a Cen­tral Bank of­fi­cial said yes­ter­day.

In what it de­scribed as an im­por­tant no­tice is­sued last Fri­day af­ter­noon, Re­pub­lic Bank said, “Ef­fec­tive Au­gust 21, 2025, the max­i­mum US dol­lar spend­ing lim­it per billing cy­cle on Re­pub­lic Bank cred­it cards will be US$2,500 or the US$ cred­it lim­it of the ac­count, if less than US$2,500.

“This change in­cludes all trans­ac­tions con­duct­ed out­side of Trinidad and To­ba­go as well as all in­ter­na­tion­al on­line trans­ac­tions, in­clud­ing trans­ac­tions where the cho­sen billing cur­ren­cy is TTD. These on­line trans­ac­tions will be in­clud­ed in the US$2,500 billing cy­cle lim­it.