People wait for a branch of the AYA Bank to open in Yangon on April 12, 2021. (AFP)

The dismantling of Myanmar’s banking system

The regime’s policies of capping withdrawals from the country’s banks are eroding public trust in the sector and undoing the progress made during the previous decade.

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