The Monetary Board of the Central Bank has ordered that the operations of remittance agencies and foreign currency exchange houses participating in the foreign currency exchange market be officially regulated. From now on, such businesses will be called Exchange Agencies. The new regulations will provide a higher degree of security for the monies sent by Dominicans living abroad. Another measure announced by the Board was the freezing of the issue of participation deposit certificates by the Central Bank, thus increasing the amount of money in circulation.