By mid-2003, the government's stabilization and liberalization efforts had reduced the gap between the black market, official, and commercial rates to approximately 8% and it quickly disappeared as the som was made convertible after October 2003.
到2003年中期，政府的穩定和自由化措施把黑市、官方和商業匯率之間的差距縮減至8%左右，差距在2003年10月政府容許兌換索姆後後很快消失。